aDepartment of Mathematics, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02453, United States;bDépartement de Mathématiques, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Québec, Canada, J1K 2R1
Abstract:
The strong no loop conjecture states that a simple module of finite projective dimension over an artin algebra has no non-zero self-extension. The main result of this paper establishes this well known conjecture for finite dimensional algebras over an algebraically closed field.