TITLE: Is the $\infty$-category $N_{dg}(\mathrm{Ch}(\mathcal{A}))$ presentable?
QUESTION [9 upvotes]: (See Jacob Lurie's "Higher Algebra", section 1.3.5 for context.)
Let $\mathcal{A}$ be a Grothendieck abelian category. Then the stable $\infty$-category $\mathcal{D}(\mathcal{A})$ is a localisation of the dg-nerve $N_{dg}(\mathrm{Ch}(\mathcal{A}))$ by Higher Algebra Proposition 1.3.5.13, and it is presentable according to Higher Algebra Proposition 1.3.5.21, since it is underlying a combinatorial model category.
My question is: what can we say about $N_{dg}(\mathrm{Ch}(\mathcal{A}))$ itself? Is it presentable?
As far as I can understand, the introduction of https://arxiv.org/pdf/1710.11388.pdf seems to suggest that there is an underlying model structure which is not combinatorial but accessible, although I am not sure if this is enough to conclude...

REPLY [10 votes]: This fails already with the category of abelian groups. If the dg-nerve of the dg-category of chain complexes of abelian groups were presentable, then the associated triangulated category would be well generated in the sense of Neeman in his book Triangulated categories (Annals of Math. Studies, Vol. 148, 2001); this is easy to deduce from Krause's characterization together with section 1.4.4 of Lurie's Higher Algebra. But in appendix E of his book, Neeman proves that the triangulated category of chain complexes up to chain homotopy equivalences does not have a generating set (Lemma E.3.2 page 438), which provides a definitive obstruction against presentability. He also proves that the opposite category is not well generated, by the way (but this is easier).