Ravenel's telescope conjecture for compactly generated triangulated categories

Let D\mathcal{D} be a compactly generated triangulated category, and let t=(X,Y)\mathbf{t}=(\mathcal{X},\mathcal{Y}) be a smashing semiorthogonal decomposition of D\mathcal{D}.

Ravenel's telescope conjecture. The decomposition t\mathbf{t} is compactly generated.

This is the general triangulated-category formulation of Ravenel's telescope conjecture. The conjecture was refuted for the homotopy category of spectra, so the claim is not true in full generality.

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Primary source

Lorenzo Martini, Carlos E. Parra, Manuel Saorín and Simone Virili, “Locally finitely presented Grothendieck categories with a flat generator”, arXiv:2508.00670 (2025).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1902.05046, arXiv:1901.09004.

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