Filtrations via tensor actions

We extend the work of Balmer, associating filtrations of essentially small tensor triangulated categories to certain dimension functions, to the setting of actions of rigidly-compactly generated tensor triangulated categories on compactly generated triangulated categories. We show that the towers of triangles associated to such a filtration can be used to produce filtrations of Gorenstein injective quasi-coherent sheaves on Gorenstein schemes. This extends and gives a new proof of a result of Enochs and Huang. In the case of local complete intersections, a further refinement of this filtration is given and we comment on some special properties of the associated spectral sequence in this case

Support theory via actions of tensor triangulated categories

We give a definition of the action of a tensor triangulated category T on a triangulated category K. In the case that T is rigidly-compactly generated and K is compactly generated we show this gives rise to a notion of supports which categorifies work of Benson, Iyengar, and Krause and extends work of Balmer and Favi. We prove that a suitable version of the local-to-global principle holds very generally. A relative version of the telescope conjecture is formulated and we give a sufficient condition for it to hold.Comment: 33 pages, to appear in Journal f\"ur die reine und angewandte Mathemati

Derived categories of representations of small categories over commutative noetherian rings

We study the derived categories of small categories over commutative noetherian rings. Our main result is a parametrization of the localizing subcategories in terms of the spectrum of the ring and the localizing subcategories over residue fields. In the special case of representations of Dynkin quivers over a commutative noetherian ring we give a complete description of the localizing subcategories of the derived category, a complete description of the thick subcategories of the perfect complexes and show the telescope conjecture holds. We also present some results concerning the telescope conjecture more generally.Comment: 18 pages, minor updates based on referee comment

Strong generators in tensor triangulated categories

We show that in an essentially small rigid tensor triangulated category with connected Balmer spectrum there are no proper non-zero thick tensor ideals admitting strong generators. This proves, for instance, that the category of perfect complexes over a commutative ring without non-trivial idempotents has no proper non-zero thick subcategories that are strongly generated.Comment: 9 pages, comments welcom