The Tilting–Cotilting Correspondence

Abstract

AbstractTo a big $n$-tilting object in a complete, cocomplete abelian category ${\textsf{A}}$ with an injective cogenerator we assign a big $n$-cotilting object in a complete, cocomplete abelian category ${\textsf{B}}$ with a projective generator and vice versa. Then we construct an equivalence between the (conventional or absolute) derived categories of ${\textsf{A}}$ and ${\textsf{B}}$. Under various assumptions on ${\textsf{A}}$, which cover a wide range of examples (for instance, if ${\textsf{A}}$ is a module category or, more generally, a locally finitely presentable Grothendieck abelian category), we show that ${\textsf{B}}$ is the abelian category of contramodules over a topological ring and that the derived equivalences are realized by a contramodule-valued variant of the usual derived Hom functor.