Koszul-like algebras and modules

In this paper, the notion of Koszul-like algebra is introduced; this notion generalizes the notion of Koszul algebra and includes some Artin-Schelter regular algebras of global dimension 5 as special examples. Basic properties of Koszul-like modules are discussed. In particular, some necessary and sufficient conditions for KL(A) = L(A) are provided, where KL(A) and L(A) denote the categories of Koszul-like modules and modules with linear presentations (see [1]–[3], etc.) respectively, and A is a Koszul-like algebra. We construct new Koszul-like algebras from the known ones by the “one-point extension.” Some criteria for a graded algebra to be Koszul-like are provided. Finally, we construct many classical Koszul objects from the given Koszul-like objects.