Title: Endofiniteness in stable homotopy theory Author: Henning Krause and Ulrike Reichenbach Status: Submitted Address: University of Bielefeld, Germany E-mail: henning@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de reichenb@mathematik.uni-bielefeld.de Abstract: We study endofinite objects in a compactly generated triangulated category in terms of ideals in the category of compact objects. Our results apply in particular to the stable homotopy category. This leads, for example, to a new interpretation of stable splittings for classifying spaces of finite groups.