Invariance of selfinjective algebras of quasitilted type under stable equivalences

We prove that the class of finite dimensional selfinjective algebras over a field which admit Galois coverings by the repetitive algebras of the quasitilted algebras, with Galois groups generated by compositions of the Nakayama automorphisms with strictly positive automorphisms, is invariant under stable and derived equivalences. Dedicated to Claus Michael Ringel on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday     

On tame weakly symmetric algebras having only periodic modules

We classify (up to Morita equivalence) all tame weakly symmetric finite dimensional algebras over an algebraically closed field having simply connected Galois coverings, nonsingular Cartan matrices and the stable Auslander-Reiten quivers consisting only of tubes. In particular, we prove that these algebras have at most four simple modules.Received: 25 February 2002     

Flatness Properties of S-Posets

We investigate the Galois coverings of weakly shod algebras. For a weakly shod algebra not quasi-tilted of canonical type, we establish a correspondence between its Galois coverings and the Galois coverings of its connecting component. As a consequence we show that a weakly shod algebra which is not quasi-tilted of canonical type is simply connected if and only if its first Hochschild cohomology group vanishes.     

Coverings of laura algebras: The standard case

In this paper, we study the covering theory of laura algebras. We prove that if a connected laura algebra is standard (that is, has a standard connecting component), then it has Galois coverings associated to the coverings of the connecting component. As a consequence, the first Hochschild cohomology group of a standard laura algebra vanishes if and only if it has no proper Galois coverings.     

Periodic resolutions and self-injective algebras of finite type

We say that an algebra A is periodic if it has a periodic projective resolution as an (A,A)-bimodule. We show that any self-injective algebra of finite representation type is periodic. To prove this, we first apply the theory of smash products to show that for a finite Galois covering B→A, B is periodic if and only if A is. In addition, when A has finite representation type, we build upon results of Buchweitz to show that periodicity passes between A and its stable Auslander algebra. Finally, we use Asashiba’s classification of the derived equivalence classes of self-injective algebras of finite type to compute bounds for the periods of these algebras, and give an application to stable Calabi-Yau dimensions.     

Koszul algebras and finite Galois coverings

The relationships between Koszulity and finite Galois coverings are obtained, which provide a construction of Koszul algebras by finite Galois coverings.     

Covering Morphisms in Categories of Relational Algebras

In this paper we use Janelidze’s approach to the classical theory of topological coverings via categorical Galois theory to study coverings in categories of relational algebras. Moreover, we present characterizations of effective descent morphisms in the categories of M-ordered sets and of multi-ordered sets.     

Finiteness of the strong global dimension of radical square zero algebras

The strong global dimension of a finite dimensional algebra A is the maximum of the width of indecomposable bounded differential complexes of finite dimensional projective A-modules. We prove that the strong global dimension of a finite dimensional radical square zero algebra A over an algebraically closed field is finite if and only if A is piecewise hereditary. Moreover, we discuss results concerning the finiteness of the strong global dimension of algebras and the related problem on the density of the push-down functors associated to the canonical Galois coverings of the trivial extensions of algebras by their repetitive algebras.     

Exact categories,big Cohen-Macaulay modules and finite representation type

One of the first remarkable results in the representation theory of artin algebras, due to Auslander and Ringel-Tachikawa, is the characterisation of when an artin algebra is representation-finite. In this paper, we investigate aspects of representation-finiteness in the general context of exact categories in the sense of Quillen. In this framework, we introduce “big objects” and prove an Auslander-type “splitting-big-objects” theorem. Our approach generalises and unifies the known results from the literature. As a further application of our methods, we extend the theorems of Auslander and Ringel-Tachikawa to arbitrary dimension, i.e. we characterise when a Cohen-Macaulay order over a complete regular local ring is of finite representation type.     

Hochschild cohomology for periodic algebras of polynomial growth

We describe the dimensions of low Hochschild cohomology spaces of exceptional periodic representation-infinite algebras of polynomial growth. As an application we obtain that an indecomposable non-standard periodic representation-infinite algebra of polynomial growth is not derived equivalent to a standard self-injective algebra.     

Cartan matrices of selfinjective algebras of tubular type

The Cartan matrix of a finite dimensional algebra A is an important combinatorial invariant reflecting frequently structural properties of the algebra and its module category. For example, one of the important features of the modular representation theory of finite groups is the nonsingularity of Cartan matrices of the associated group algebras (Brauer’s theorem). Recently, the class of all tame selfinjective algebras having simply connected Galois coverings and the stable Auslander-Reiten quiver consisting only of stable tubes has been shown to be the class of selfinjective algebras of tubular type, that is, the orbit algebras /G of the repetitive algebras of tubular algebras B with respect to the actions of admissible groups G of automorphisms of . The aim of the paper is to describe the determinants of the Cartan matrices of selfinjective algebras of tubular type and derive some consequences.     

The representation dimension of domestic weakly symmetric algebras

Auslander’s representation dimension measures how far a finite dimensional algebra is away from being of finite representation type. In [1], M. Auslander proved that a finite dimensional algebra A is of finite representation type if and only if the representation dimension of A is at most 2. Recently, R. Rouquier proved that there are finite dimensional algebras of an arbitrarily large finite representation dimension. One of the exciting open problems is to show that all finite dimensional algebras of tame representation type have representation dimension at most 3. We prove that this is true for all domestic weakly symmetric algebras over algebraically closed fields having simply connected Galois coverings.     

The diagram for endomorphism algebras of two-term tilting complexes over self-injective algebras

We construct a diagram between the endomorphism algebra of a two-term projective module complex over a self-injective algebra and the endomorphism algebras of its homology groups and apply the diagram to the tilting theory of self-injective algebras. We give an example of recovering the endomorphism algebra of a two-term tilting complex over a self-injective algebra from the endomorphism algebras of its homology groups with some additional structures which appear in the diagram.     

Tilting via torsion pairs and almost hereditary noetherian rings

We generalize the tilting process by Happel, Reiten and Smalø to the setting of finitely presented modules over right coherent rings. Moreover, we extend the characterization of quasi-tilted artin algebras as the almost hereditary ones to all right noetherian rings.     

A characterization of selfinjective algebras of strictly canonical type

We prove that the class of selfinjective algebras of strictly canonical type, investigated in Kwiecień and Skowroński (2009) [27], Kwiecień and Skowroński (2009) [28], coincides with the class of selfinjective algebras having triangular Galois coverings with infinite cyclic group and the Auslander–Reiten quiver with quasi-tubes maximally saturated by simple and projective modules, satisfying natural conditions.     

Square-central elements and standard generators for biquaternion algebras

Analyzing square-central elements in central simple algebras of degree 4, we show that every two elementary abelian Galois maximal subfields are connected by a chain of nontrivially-intersecting pairs. Similar results are proved for non-central quaternion subalgebras, and for central quaternion subalgebras when they exist. Along these lines we classify the maximal square-central subspaces. We also show that every two standard quadruples of generators of a biquaternion algebra are connected by a chain of basic steps, in each of which at most two generators are being changed.     

Galois objects for algebraic quantum groups

The basic elements of Galois theory for algebraic quantum groups were given in the paper ‘Galois Theory for Multiplier Hopf Algebras with Integrals’ by Van Daele and Zhang. In this paper, we supplement their results in the special case of Galois objects: algebras equipped with a Galois coaction by an algebraic quantum group, such that only the scalars are coinvariants. We show how the structure of these objects is as rich as the one of the quantum groups themselves: there are two distinguished weak K.M.S. functionals, related by a modular element, and there is an analogue of the antipode squared. We show how to reflect the quantum group across a Galois object to obtain a (possibly) new algebraic quantum group. We end by considering an example.