The Spectrum of Stable Infinity Categories with Actions

TL;DR

This paper introduces the relative Matsui spectrum, a new invariant for stable ategories with actions, unifying and extending existing spectral theories to classify submodules and recover geometric spaces from categorical data.

Contribution

It defines the relative Matsui spectrum, generalizing Balmer's and Matsui's spectra, and demonstrates its fundamental properties and applications in recovering geometric spaces.

Findings

Unifies tensor triangular spectra and Matsui's spectra

Recovers classical geometric spaces from categorical data

Extends tensor triangular geometry beyond globally tensorial settings

Abstract

We introduce the relative Matsui spectrum, a new invariant associated with a stable \(\infty\)-category equipped with an action. This construction generalizes both Balmer's tensor triangular spectra and Matsui's triangular spectra, and provides a unified framework for classifying thick submodules. We establish its fundamental properties, including universality, comparison with existing spectra, and descent, and construct a natural morphism to the Balmer spectrum of the base. Applications show that the relative Matsui spectrum recovers the underlying classical geometric spaces from categorical data in various settings: categories of perfect complexes of schemes, twisted derived categories, categories of singularities, and derived matrix factorization categories. Thus the relative Matsui spectrum extends the reach of tensor triangular geometry beyond globally tensorial settings, while preserving geometric intuition.