Rigids as Iterated Skew Commutators of Simples

Let be a finite-dimensional hereditary algebra of finite or tame representation type over a finite field, and let be a rigid -module. Then the element in the Ringel–Hall algebra is an iterated skew commutator of the isoclasses of simple -modules. This gives a new characterization of the rigidness of an indecomposable module over a tame hereditary algebra.The first author was partially supported by a grant from the NSF; and the second author was supported by the Doctorial Foundation of the Ministry of Education of People’s Republic of China, and the NSFC (Grant No. 10271113 and 10301033).