The singularity category of an exact category applied to characterize Gorenstein schemes

Abstract

We study singularity categories of exact categories with a focus on those associated to a complete hereditary cotorsion pair. As an application we identify a non-affine analogue of the singularity category of a Gorenstein local ring; with this Buchweitz's classic equivalence of three categories over Gorenstein local rings has been generalized to schemes, a project started by Murfet and Salarian more than ten years ago. As another application we use the framework to characterize rings of finite finitistic dimension.