%0 Journal Article %T Noetherian hereditary categories satisfying Serre duality %A Idun Reiten %A Michel Van den Bergh %J Mathematics %D 1999 %I arXiv %X In this paper we classify noetherian hereditary abelian categories satisfying Serre duality in the sense of Bondal and Kapranov. As a consequence we obtain a classification of saturated noetherian hereditary categories. As a side result we show that when our hereditary categories have no nonzero projectives or injectives, then the Serre duality property is equivalent to the existence of almost split sequences. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/9911242v2