Mutations of simple-minded systems in Calabi-Yau categories generated by a spherical object

In this article, we give a definition and a classification of ‘higher’ simple-minded systems in triangulated categories generated by spherical objects with negative Calabi-Yau dimension. We also study mutations of this class of objects and that of ‘higher’ Hom-configurations and Riedtmann configurations. This gives an explicit analogue of the nice mutation theory exhibited in cluster-tilting theory.