Nakayama oriented pullbacks and stably hereditary algebras

We introduce a new class of algebras, the Nakayama oriented pullbacks, obtained from pullbacks of surjective morphisms of algebras A?C and B?C. We prove that such a pullback is tilted when A and B are hereditary. We also show that stably hereditary algebras respecting the clock condition are Nakayama oriented pullbacks, and we use results about these pullbacks to show when a stably hereditary algebra is tilted or iterated tilted.     

Composite of irreducible morphisms in the bounded derived category

We study necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of n irreducible morphisms in the bounded derived category of an Artin algebra, with non-zero composite in the n+1-power of the radical. In the case of , the bounded derived category of an Ext-finite hereditary k-category with tilting object, such irreducible morphisms exist if and only if H is derived equivalent to a wild hereditary algebra or to a wild canonical algebra. We also characterize the cluster tilted algebras having such irreducible morphisms.     

Tilting theory and cluster combinatorics

We introduce a new category C, which we call the cluster category, obtained as a quotient of the bounded derived category D of the module category of a finite-dimensional hereditary algebra H over a field. We show that, in the simply laced Dynkin case, C can be regarded as a natural model for the combinatorics of the corresponding Fomin-Zelevinsky cluster algebra. In this model, the tilting objects correspond to the clusters of Fomin-Zelevinsky. Using approximation theory, we investigate the tilting theory of C, showing that it is more regular than that of the module category itself, and demonstrating an interesting link with the classification of self-injective algebras of finite representation type. This investigation also enables us to conjecture a generalisation of APR-tilting.     

n-representation infinite algebras

From the viewpoint of higher dimensional Auslander–Reiten theory, we introduce a new class of finite dimensional algebras of global dimension n, which we call n-representation infinite. They are a certain analog of representation infinite hereditary algebras, and we study three important classes of modules: n-preprojective, n-preinjective and n  -regular modules. We observe that their homological behaviour is quite interesting. For instance they provide first examples of algebras having infinite Ext¹${\mathrm{Ext}}^1$-orthogonal families of modules. Moreover we give general constructions of n-representation infinite algebras.     

σ-Contractible and σ-biprojective Banach algebras

Abstract

The notion of σ-amenability for Banach algebras and its related notions were introduced and extensively studied by M.S. Moslehian and A.N. Motlagh in [10]. We develop these notions parallel to the amenability of Banach algebras introduced by B.E. Johnson in [5]. Briefly, we investigate σ-contractibility and σ-biprojectivity of Banach algebras, which are extensions of usual notions of contractibility and biprojectivity, respectively, where σ is a bounded endomorphism of the corresponding Banach algebra. We also give the notion σ-diagonal. Then we verify relations between σ-contractibility, σ-biprojectivity and the existence of a σ-diagonal for a Banach algebra, when σ has dense range or is an idempotent. Moreover, we obtain some hereditary properties of these concepts.     

Derived dynkin extensions

The finite dimensional tame hereditary algebras are associated with the extended Dynkin diagrams. An indecomposable module over such an algebra is either preprojective or preinjective or lies in a family of tubes whose tubular type is the corresponding Dynkin diagram. The study of one-point extensions by simple regular modules in such tubes was initiated in [Ri].

We generalise this approach by starting out with algebras which are derived equivalent to a tame hereditary algebra and considering one-point extensions by modules which are simple regular in tubes in the derived category. If the obtained tubular type is again a Dynkin diagram these algebras are called derived Dynkin extensions.

Our main theorem says that a representation infinite algebra is derived equivalent to a tame hereditary algebra iff it is an iterated derived Dynkin extension of a tame concealed algebra. As application we get a new proof of a theorem in [AS] about domestic tubular branch enlargements which uses the derived category instead of combinatorial arguments.     

Cluster-tilted algebras

We introduce a new class of algebras, which we call cluster-tilted. They are by definition the endomorphism algebras of tilting objects in a cluster category. We show that their representation theory is very close to the representation theory of hereditary algebras. As an application of this, we prove a generalised version of so-called APR-tilting.

     

Automorphism groups of trivial extensions

Given a split basic finite dimensional algebra A over a field, we study the relationship between the groups of categorical automorphisms of A and its trivial extension A?D(A). Our results cover all triangular algebras and all 2-nilpotent algebras whose quiver has no nontrivial oriented cycle of length ?2. In this latter as well as in the hereditary case, we give structure theorem for CAut(A?D(A)) in terms of CAut(A). As a byproduct, we get the precise relationship between the first Hochschild cohomology groups of A and A?D(A).     

Enveloping ringoids

We present notions of module over a universal algebra, and linear representation of a universal algebra, which have gained currency with categorical algebraists, we give several intriguing examples of these objects, showing that important aspects of universal algebras can be studied in this context, and we describe the theory ofenveloping ringoids, which have categories of left modules equivalent to corresponding categories of modules and linear representations. Algebras in many of the familiar varieties of algebras, which have underlying groups, turn out to have enveloping ringoids that are equivalent to familiar rings. Nonempty algebras in an abelian varietyV have an enveloping ringoid equivalent toR(V), the so-calledring of the variety V.Dedicated to the memory of Alan DayPresented by J. Sichler.     

Hereditary noetherian categories of positive Euler characteristic

We develop the fundamentals of hereditary noetherian categories with Serre duality over an arbitrary field k, where the category of coherent sheaves over a smooth projective curve over k serves as the prime example and others are coming from the representation theory of finite dimensional algebras. The proper way to view such a category is to think of coherent sheaves on a possibly non-commutative smooth projective curve. We define for each such category notions like function field and Euler characteristic, determine its Auslander-Reiten components and study stable and semistable bundles for an appropriate notion of degree. We provide a complete classification of hereditary noetherian categories for the case of positive Euler characteristic by relating these to finite dimensional representations of (locally bounded) hereditary k-algebras whose underlying valued quiver admits a positive additive function. Dedicated to Otto Kerner on the occasion of his 60th birthday     

SUBDIRECT IRREDUCIBILITY AND RADICALS

Abstract

We prove lemmas in Andrunakievich s-varieties on the transitivity of the relation “is an ideal of” and concerning subdirectly irreducible factor rings. Applying these lemmas we show that a Plotkin radical introduced in [8] has the ADS-property and is ideal hereditary. These lemmas are applicable in proving a subdirect decomposition for rings having an ideal with 0 antisimple radical. For Jordan algebras and near-rings (they do not form Andrunakievich varieties) we can prove a similar subdirect decomposition concerning ideals with 0 Brown-McCoy radical.     

Representation Dimension and Quasi-hereditary Algebras

We study Auslander's representation dimension of Artin algebras, which is by definition the minimal projective dimension of coherent functors on modules which are both generators and cogenerators. We show the following statements: (1) if an Artin algebra A is stably hereditary, then the representation dimension of A is at most 3. (2) If two Artin algebras are stably equivalent of Morita type, then they have the same representation dimension. Particularly, if two self-injective algebras are derived equivalent, then they have the same representation dimension. (3) Any incidence algebra of a finite partially ordered set over a field has finite representation dimension. Moreover, we use results on quasi-hereditary algebras to show that (4) the Auslander algebra of a Nakayama algebra has finite representation dimension.     

GENERALIZED BRAUER ALGEBRAS

ABSTRACT

Using some ideas of Brauer, we introduce what we call generalized Brauer algebras and, as a special case, Brauer orders. We show that many well-known classes of so-called crossed product algebras, and in particular, the well-known crossed product orders, can be obtained as special instances of our construction. We prove several results showing when Brauer orders are Azumaya, maximal, hereditary or Gorenstein.     

MODULO-CONSTANT IDEAL-HEREDITARY RADICALS OF NEAR-KINGS

ABSTRACT

It is known that no “good” radical of (not necessarily o-symmetric) near-rings can be ideal-hereditary. Using the results of the o-symmetric case, we show that the situation is not as bad as on first appearances and we give several examples of (Kurosh-Amitsur) radicals of near-rings for which the semisimple class is hereditary and the radical class is hereditary on left invariant ideals. We also extend some recent results on left strong radicals from the o-symmetric case to the general case.     

The structure of AS-Gorenstein algebras

In this paper, we define a notion of AS-Gorenstein algebra for N-graded algebras, and show that symmetric AS-regular algebras of Gorenstein parameter 1 are exactly preprojective algebras of quasi-Fano algebras. This result can be compared with the fact that symmetric graded Frobenius algebras of Gorenstein parameter −1 are exactly trivial extensions of finite-dimensional algebras. The results of this paper suggest that there is a strong interaction between classification problems in noncommutative algebraic geometry and those in representation theory of finite-dimensional algebras.     

On the finitistic dimension conjecture II: Related to finite global dimension

In this paper, we study the finitistic dimensions of artin algebras by establishing a relationship between the global dimensions of the given algebras, on the one hand, and the finitistic dimensions of their subalgebras, on the other hand. This is a continuation of the project in [J. Pure Appl. Algebra 193 (2004) 287-305]. For an artin algebra A we denote by gl.dim(A), fin.dim(A) and rep.dim(A) the global dimension, finitistic dimension and representation dimension of A, respectively. The Jacobson radical of A is denoted by rad(A). The main results in the paper are as follows: Let B be a subalgebra of an artin algebra A such that rad(B) is a left ideal in A. Then (1) if gl.dim(A)?4 and rad(A)=rad(B)A, then fin.dim(B)<∞. (2) If rep.dim(A)?3, then fin.dim(B)<∞. The results are applied to pullbacks of algebras over semi-simple algebras. Moreover, we have also the following dual statement: (3) Let ?:B?A be a surjective homomorphism between two algebras B and A. Suppose that the kernel of ? is contained in the socle of the right B-module B_B. If gl.dim(A)?4, or rep.dim(A)?3, then fin.dim(B)<∞. Finally, we provide a class of algebras with representation dimension at most three: (4) If A is stably hereditary and rad(B) is an ideal in A, then rep.dim(B)?3.     

Artin-Schelter regular algebras and categories

Motivated by constructions in the representation theory of finite dimensional algebras we generalize the notion of Artin-Schelter regular algebras of dimension n to algebras and categories to include Auslander algebras and a graded analogue for infinite representation type. A generalized Artin-Schelter regular algebra or a category of dimension n is shown to have common properties with the classical Artin-Schelter regular algebras. In particular, when they admit a duality, then they satisfy Serre duality formulas and the -category of nice sets of simple objects of maximal projective dimension n is a finite length Frobenius category.     

Skew group algebras of piecewise hereditary algebras are piecewise hereditary

We show that the main results of Happel-Rickard-Schofield (1988) and Happel-Reiten-Smalø (1996) on piecewise hereditary algebras are coherent with the notion of group action on an algebra. Then, we take advantage of this compatibility and show that if G is a finite group acting on a piecewise hereditary algebra A over an algebraically closed field whose characteristic does not divide the order of G, then the resulting skew group algebra A[G] is also piecewise hereditary.