The Singularity Category Of An Exact Category Applied To Characterize Gorenstein Schemes

Abstract We construct a non-affine analogue of the singularity category of a Gorenstein local ring. With this, Buchweitz’s classic equivalence of three triangulated categories over a Gorenstein local ring has been generalized to schemes, a project started by Murfet and Salarian more than ten years ago. Our construction originates in a framework we develop for singularity categories of exact categories. As an application of this framework in the non-commutative setting, we characterize rings of finite finitistic dimension.