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HOMOLOGICAL STRATIFICATION AND DESCENT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2026

Tobias Barthel
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Mathematics , Bonn, Germany tbarthel@mpim-bonn.mpg.de
Drew Heard
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematical Sciences, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway drew.k.heard@ntnu.no
Beren Sanders*
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA czou3@ucsc.edu
Changhan Zou
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA czou3@ucsc.edu
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Abstract

We introduce a notion of stratification for rigidly-compactly generated tensor-triangulated categories relative to the homological spectrum and develop the fundamental features of this theory. In particular, we demonstrate that it exhibits excellent descent properties. In conjunction with Balmer’s Nerves of Steel conjecture, we conclude that classical stratification also admits a general form of descent. This gives a uniform treatment of several recent stratification results and provides a complete answer to the question: When does stratification descend? As a new application, we extend earlier work on the tensor triangular geometry of equivariant module spectra from finite groups to compact Lie groups.

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Figure 1 Schematic overview of the relations between the various notions of stratification.