Silting t-structures in $Q$-shaped derived categories

Abstract

Torsion pairs, and in particular t-structures, play a central role in the study of triangulated categories. Specifically, t-structures induced by silting (or tilting) objects often admit desirable properties with strong connections to derived equivalences. In this paper, using the correspondence of Saorín-Šťovíček between cohereditary cotorsion pairs in Frobenius exact categories and t-structures in their stable categories, we construct a family of t-structures in the $Q$-shaped derived category of Holm and Jorgensen, arising from admissible partitions of $Q$. We give an explicit description of the associated cotorsion pairs inside the Frobenius exact category of the bifibrant objects, and we identify the corresponding co-aisles by certain homological vanishing conditions. Such t-structures are proved to be induced by a silting object, that can be completely determined by the combinatorics of $Q$. Finally, we illustrate our results by recovering well-known equivalences in the $Q$-shaped setting, while also providing examples where the combinatorial conditions fail (e.g. cyclic quivers), showing that such categories may admit no non-trivial t-structures, revealing phenomena analogous to those observed by Linckelmann in stable module categories.