I asked this on math.stackexchange.com, but didn't get any answer.
Let $\mathcal{A}$ be an abelian category and $\mathcal{C}$ a localizing subcategory in the sense of Gabriel. (A Serre/thick/dense subcategory, such that the quotient functor $T\colon \mathcal{A}\rightarrow\mathcal{A}/\mathcal{C}$ admits a right adjoint, the so called "section functor".) Then one can form the quotient category $\mathcal{A}/\mathcal{C}$.
Which properties inherits $\mathcal{A}/\mathcal{C}$ from $\mathcal{A}$? To be more precise:
- If $\mathcal{A}$ has enough injectives (resp. projectives), does $\mathcal{A}/\mathcal{C}$ too? If not, under which conditions?
- If $A\in \mathcal{A}$ is injective (resp. projective), is it $T(A)$, too? If not, under which conditions?
- If $A\in \mathcal{A}$ is a cogenerator, is it $T(A)$ too? If not, under which conditions?
- If $\mathcal{A}$ is complete, is it $\mathcal{A}/\mathcal{C}$ too? If not, under which conditions?
I know that:
- If $\mathcal{A}$ is cocomplete then so is $\mathcal{A}/\mathcal{C}$. ($T$ is a left adjoint)
- If $\{U_i\}$ is a set of generators then so is $\{T(U_i)\}$.
- If $\mathcal{A}$ is AB5 then so is $\mathcal{A}/\mathcal{C}$. ($T$ commutes with filtered limits and one can prove that taking filtered limits is exact.)
- The second and the third point implies: If $\mathcal{A}$ is Grothendieck then so is $\mathcal{A}/\mathcal{C}$. (Gabriel–Popesco theorem even says that every Grothendieck category has this shape and one can choose $\mathcal{A}$ as a category of modules.)