Singular equivalences of functor categories via Auslander-Buchweitz approximations

Abstract: The aim of this paper is to construct singular equivalences between functor categories. As a special case, we show that there exists a singular equivalence arising from a cotilting module $T$, namely, the singularity category of $(^\perp T)/[T]$ and that of $(\mod A)/[T]$ are triangle equivalent. In particular, the canonical module $\omega$ over a commutative Noetherian ring induces a singular equivalence between $(\mathsf{CM}R)/[\omega]$ and $(\mod R)/[\omega]$, which generalizes Matsui-Takahashi's theorem. Our result is based on a sufficient condition for an additive category $\mathcal{A}$ and its subcategory $\mathcal{X}$ so that the canonical inclusion $\mathcal{X}\hookrightarrow\mathcal{A}$ induces a singular equivalence $\mathsf{D_{sg}}(\mathcal{A})\simeq \mathsf{D_{sg}}(\mathcal{X})$, which is a functor category version of Xiao-Wu Chen's theorem.