Grothendieck groups and Auslander-Reiten (d+2)-angles

Abstract

Xiao and Zhu has shown that if $\cal C$ is a locally finite triangulated category, then the Auslander-Reiten triangles generate the relations for the Grothendieck group of $\cal C$. The notion of $(d +2)$-angulated categories is a "higher dimensional" analogue of triangulated categories. In this article, we show that if A $(d+2)$-angulated category $\cal C$ is locally finite if and only if the Auslander-Reiten $(d+2)$-angles generate the relations for the Grothendieck group of $\cal C$. This extends the result of Xiao and Zhu, and gives the converse of Xiao and Zhu's result is also true.