Generalized Brown representability in homotopy categories

Abstract

We show that the homotopy category of a combinatorial stable model category $\ck$ is well generated. It means that each object $K$ of $\Ho(\ck)$ is an iterated weak colimit of $\lambda$-compact objects for some cardinal $\lambda$. A natural question is whether each $K$ is a weak colimit of $\lambda$-compact objects. We show that this is related to (generalized) Brown representability of $\Ho(\mathcal K)$.