Hypersurface support for noncommutative complete intersections

Abstract: We introduce an infinite variant of hypersurface support for finite-dimensional, noncommutative complete intersections. By a noncommutative complete intersection we mean an algebra R which admits a smooth deformation $Q\to R$ by a Noetherian algebra $Q$ which is of finite global dimension. We show that hypersurface support defines a support theory for the big singularity category $Sing(R)$, and that the support of an object in $Sing(R)$ vanishes if and only if the object itself vanishes. Our work is inspired by Avramov and Buchweitz' support theory for (commutative) local complete intersections. In a companion piece, we employ hypersurface support, and the results of the present paper, to classify thick ideals in stable categories for a number of families of finite-dimensional Hopf algebras.