| Abstract: | We are characterizing the categories of coherent sheaves on a weighted projective line as the small hereditary noetherian categories without projectives and admitting a tilting complex. The paper is related to recent work with de la Peña (Math. Z., to appear) characterizing finite dimensional algebras with a sincere separating tubular family, and further gives a partial answer to a question of Happel, Reiten, Smalø (Mem. Amer. Math. Soc. 120 (1996), no. 575) regarding the characterization of hereditary categories with a tilting object. |
