Balanced pairs and recollements in extriangulated categories with negative first extensions

Abstract: A notion of balanced pairs in an extriangulated category with a negative first extension is defined in this article. We prove that there exists a bijective correspondence between balanced pairs and proper classes $\xi$ with enough $\xi$-projectives and enough $\xi$-injectives. It can be regarded as a simultaneous generalization of Fu-Hu-Zhang-Zhu and Wang-Li-Huang. Besides, we show that if $(\mathcal A ,\mathcal B,\mathcal C)$ is a recollement of extriangulated categories, then balanced pairs in $\mathcal B$ can induce balanced pairs in $\mathcal A$ and $\mathcal C$ under natural assumptions. As a application, this result gengralizes a result by Fu-Hu-Yao in abelian categories. Moreover, it highlights a new phenomena when it applied to triangulated categories.