Annihilation of cohomology and (strong) generation of singularity categories

Abstract: Let R be a commutative Noetherian ring. We establish a close relationship between the (strong) generation of the singularity category of R, the nonvanishing of the annihilator of the singularity category of R, and the nonvanishing of the cohomological annihilator of modules. As an application, we prove that the singularity category of R has a strong generator if and only if the annihilator of the singularity category of R is nonzero when R is a Noetherian domain with Krull dimension at most one. Furthermore, we relate the generation of the singularity category and the extension generation of the module category. Additionally, we introduce the notion of the co-cohomological annihilator of modules. If the category of finitely generated R-modules has a strong generator, we show that the infinite injective dimension locus of a finitely generated R-module M is closed, with the defining ideal given by the co-cohomological annihilator of M.