Lemma 5.23. The full subcategory of compact small stable idempotent-complete -categories is essentially small.
5.4. Approximating split-exact sequences
In order to localize with respect to the (split-) exact sequences, we need to be able to choose a set of representatives which generate them under filtered colimits.
Proof. The result follows from the fact that is an accessible localization of , and itself is an accessible localization of the finitely presentable -category of small spectral categories via theorem 1.10. ∎
This has the following immediate and essential corollary:
Corollary 5.24. For any regular cardinal , there exists a set of representatives of split-exact sequences of -compact small idempotent-complete stable -categories.
It is straightforward to see that filtered colimits of exact sequences of such -categories are exact.
Lemma 5.25. Given a filtered diagram of exact sequences of compact idempotent-complete small stable -categories, the colimit is an exact sequence of idempotent-complete small stable -categories; that is, is fully faithful with cofiber .
Proof. This follows from the fact that the filtered colimit of fully faithful functors is a fully faithful functor and that the cofiber of a filtered colimit of fully faithful functors is equivalent to the filtered colimit of the cofibers. ∎
The -category of -categories equipped with a localization,
is the subcategory of those functors such that admits a right adjoint with , and maps those transformations which also commute with the adjoint. We have obvious analogues and , and in the stable setting a localization is part of the data of a split-exact sequence. We write
for the subcategory consisting of those diagrams of small stable -categories such that , is fully faithful with cofiber , admits a right adjoint with , and admits a right adjoint with ; maps are those transformations
which also commute with the adjoints, i.e., and .
Proposition 5.26. The functors and , induced by the inclusion , are equivalences.
Proof. First observe that a split-exact sequence is completely determined by the projection together with its section . This is because is the fiber of , which we may identify with the full subcategory of spanned by the such that , and, since is fully faithful, is determined by the composite , the fiber
of the unit map of the adjunction . Hence has contractible (homotopy) fibers and is therefore and equivalence. ∎
Proposition 5.27. The -category of split-exact sequences of small stable -categories is accessible. In particular, there exists a cardinal such that any split-exact sequence in is a -filtered (and hence filtered) colimit of -compact split-exact sequences in .
Proof. By proposition 5.26, we may equivalently show that is accessible. Recall that an adjunction of -categories can be described as a map which is both a cocartesian fibration and a cartesian fibration [52, 5.2.2.1]. This leads us to consider the commutative diagram of pullback squares
in which (respectively, ) denote the subcategories of cocartesian fibrations (respectively, cartesian fibrations whose straightenings are fully faithful) and functors which preserve cocartesian (respectively, cartesian) edges.
Since is an accessible functor between accessible -categories, it suffices, using the [52, 5.4.4.3, 5.4.5.16, 5.4.6.6] and the duality between cartesian and cocartesian fibrations, to show that is accessible, and that the inclusions are accessible functors. The straightening functor gives an equivalence between cartesian fibrations over and presheaves of -categories on [52, 3.2.0.1].
In order to understand the condition of being fully faithful, we write as an accessible localization of simplicial spaces [47]. A functor is fully faithful when the corresponding map of (local) simplicial spaces is fully faithful, and recall that a map of simplicial spaces is fully faithful if and only if is an equivalence. It follows that is the accessible localization of obtained by also inverting the pushout product of and . Thus and are accessible.
Finally, it remains to show that the inclusion is accessible. First, observe that finite limits commute with filtered colimits in , as is compactly generated, the inclusion preserves limits and filtered colimits [52, 5.3.5.3], and finite limits commute with filtered colimits in presheaf -categories (this uses [52, 5.3.3.3] and the fact that (co)limits in presheaf -categories are computed objectwise). It follows that the filtered colimit of cartesian fibrations , computed in , is itself a cartesian fibration ; indeed, the inclusions preserve cartesian edges over , and inspection of the fibers
over each vertex shows that is also the colimit in . ∎
Original source: arXiv:1001.2282v4