The stable module category and model structures for hierarchically defined groups

Abstract

In this work we construct a compactly generated tensor-triangulated stable category for a large class of infinite groups, including those in Kropholler's hierarchy $\mathrm{LH}F$. This can be constructed as the homotopy category of a certain model category structure, which we show is Quillen equivalent to several other model categories, including those constructed by Bravo, Gillespie, and Hovey in their work on stable module categories for general rings. We also investigate the compact objects in this category. In particular, we give a topological characterisation of those groups of finite global Gorenstein AC-projective dimension such that the trivial representation $Z$ is compact.