Locally finitely presented and coherent hearts

Abstract: Starting with a Grothendieck category $\mathcal{G}$ and a torsion pair $\mathbf{t}=(\mathcal{T},\mathcal{F})$ in $\mathcal G$, we study the local finite presentability and local coherence of the heart $\mathcal{H}{\mathbf{t}}$ of the associated Happel-Reiten-Smal{\o} $t$-structure in the derived category $\mathrm{Der} (\mathcal{G})$. We start by showing that, in this general setting, the torsion pair $\mathbf t$ is of finite type, if and only if it is quasi-cotilting, if and only if it is cosilting. We then proceed to study those $\mathbf t$ for which $\mathcal{H}{\mathbf{t}}$ is locally finitely presented, obtaining a complete answer under some additional assumptions on the ground category $\mathcal{G}$, which are general enough to include all locally coherent categories, all categories of modules and several categories of quasi-coherent sheaves over schemes. The third problem that we tackle is that of local coherence. In this direction we characterize those torsion pairs $\mathbf t=(\mathcal T,\mathcal F)$ in a locally finitely presented $\mathcal G$ for which $\mathcal{H}{\mathbf{t}}$ is locally coherent in two cases: when the tilted t-structure in $\mathcal{H}{\mathbf{t}}$ is assumed to restrict to finitely presented objects, and when $\mathcal F$ is cogenerating. In the last part of the paper we concentrate on the case when $\mathcal G$ is a category of modules over a small preadditive category, giving several examples and obtaining very neat (new) characterizations even in this more classical setting, also underlying connections with the notion of an elementary cogenerator.