$\Sigma$-pure-injectives in homotopy categories for gentle algebras

Abstract

We consider the homotopy category of complexes of projective modules over any gentle algebra. We prove that indecomposable $\Sigma$-pure-injective objects in s must be shifts of string or band complexes. We begin with a survey of purity in compactly generated triangulated categories, recalling some characterisations of $\Sigma$-pure-injective objects that mimic classical results from the model theory of modules. We then specify to the aforementioned homotopy category, and describe the compact objects in this case. Our proof uses a recent adaptation of a classification technique known as the functorial filtrations method. One of the key steps in our employment of this method is an interpretation of the appropriate linear relations in terms of pp formulas in a canonical multi-sorted language.