THE EULER CHARACTERISTIC OF ACYCLIC CATEGORIES

The Euler Characteristic

I will describe a few basic properties of the Euler characteristic and then I use them to prove special case of a cute formula due to Bernstein-Khovanskii-Koushnirenko. 1. Basic properties of the Euler characteristic The Euler characteristic is a function χ which associates to each reasonable topological space X an integer χ(X). For us a reasonable space would be a space which admits a finite s...

Acyclic Calabi-yau Categories

We prove a structure theorem for triangulated Calabi-Yau categories: An algebraic 2-Calabi-Yau triangulated category over an algebraically closed field is a cluster category iff it contains a cluster tilting subcategory whose quiver has no oriented cycles. We prove a similar characterization for higher cluster categories. As an application to commutative algebra, we show that the stable categor...

Acyclic Calabi-Yau categories are cluster categories

Let k be a field and Q a finite quiver without oriented cycles. Let kQ be the path algebra of Q and mod kQ the category of k-finite-dimensional right kQ-modules. The cluster category CQ was introduced in [1] (for general Q) and, independently, in [4] (for Q of type An). It is defined as the orbit category of the bounded derived category D(mod kQ) under the action of the automorphism Σ−1 ◦ S, wh...

Exponentiation and Euler Characteristic

The Euler Characteristic of an Enriched Category

We develop the homotopy theory of Euler characteristic (magnitude) of a category enriched in a monoidal model category. If a monoidal model category V is equipped with an Euler characteristic that is compatible with weak equivalences and fibrations in V, then our Euler characteristic of V-enriched categories is also compatible with weak equivalences and fibrations in the canonical model structu...