Monomorphism Operator and Perpendicular Operator

For a quiver Q, a k-algebra A, and an additive full subcategory 𝒳 of A-mod, the monomorphism category Mon(Q, 𝒳) is introduced. The main result says that if T is an A-module such that there is an exact sequence 0 → T _m  → … → T ₀ → D(A _A ) → 0 with each T _i  ∈ add(T), then Mon(Q, ^⊥ T) =^⊥(kQ ? _k T); and if T is cotilting, then kQ ? _k T is a unique cotilting Λ-module, up to multiplicities of indecomposable direct summands, such that Mon(Q, ^⊥ T) =^⊥(kQ ? _k T).

As applications, the category of the Gorenstein-projective (kQ ? _k A)-modules is characterized as Mon(Q, 𝒢𝒫(A)) if A is Gorenstein; the contravariantly finiteness of Mon(Q, 𝒳) can be described; and a sufficient and necessary condition for Mon(Q, A) being of finite type is given.