N-fold module factorizations

Abstract: Module factorizations with two factors of a regular normal element in a ring are newly introduced by Xiao-Wu Chen. In the paper, we introduce n-fold module factorizations, that is, module factorizations with n factors. First we realize the category of n-fold module factorizations as the module category of a matrix subring. Then we relate n-fold module factorizations with Gorenstein projective components to Gorenstein projective modules over a specific upper triangular matrix ring, leading to the study of triangular equivalences among certain triangulated stable categories. Finally, we explore recollements involving the stable categories of higher-fold module factorizations. Our results generalize the commutative version of n-fold matrix factorizations and the non-commutative version of 2-fold module factorizations.