Two new classes of n-exangulated categories

Abstract

Herschend-Liu-Nakaoka introduced the notion of $n$-exangulated categories. It is not only a higher dimensional analogue of extriangulated categories defined by Nakaoka-Palu, but also gives a simultaneous generalization of $n$-exact categories and $(n+2)$-angulated categories. Let $\mathcal C$ be an $n$-exangulated category and $\mathcal X$ a full subcategory of $\mathcal C$. If $\mathcal X$ satisfies $\mathcal X\subseteq\mathcal P\cap\mathcal I$, then we give a necessary and sufficient condition for the ideal quotient $\mathcal C/\mathcal X$ to be an $n$-exangulated category, where $\mathcal P$ (resp. $\mathcal I$) is the full subcategory of projective (resp. injective) objects in $\mathcal C$. In addition, we define the notion of $n$-proper class in $\mathcal C$. If $\xi$ is an $n$-proper class in $\mathcal C$, then we prove that $\mathcal C$ admits a new $n$-exangulated structure. These two ways give $n$-exangulated categories which are neither $n$-exact nor $(n+2)$-angulated in general.