Complete slices and homological properties of tilted algebras

Assem, Ibrahim ; Coelho, Flávio Ulhoa

Glasgow mathematical journal, Tome 36 (1994) no. 3, pp. 347-354

Résumé

It is reasonable to expect that the representation theory of an algebra (finite dimensional over a field, basic and connected) can be used to study its homological properties. In particular, much is known about the structure of the Auslander-Reiten quiver of an algebra, which records most of the information we have on its module category. We ask whether one can predict the homological dimensions of a module from its position in the Auslander-Reiten quiver. We are particularly interested in the case where the algebra is a tilted algebra. This class of algebras of global dimension two, introduced by Happel and Ringel in [7], has since then been the subject of many investigations, and its representation theory is well understood by now (see, for instance, [1], [7], [8], [9], [11], [13]).In this case, the most striking feature of the Auslander-Reiten quiver is the existence of complete slices, which reproduce the quiver of the hereditary algebra from which the tilted algebra arises. It follows from well-known results that any indecomposable successor (or predecessor) of a complete slice has injective (or projective, respectively) dimension at most one, from which one deduces that a tilted algebra is representation-finite if and only if both the projective and the injective dimensions of almost all (that is, all but at most finitely many non-isomorphic) indecomposable modules equal two (see (3.1) and (3.2)). On the other hand, the authors have shown in [2, (3.4)] that a representation-infinite algebra is concealed if and only if both the projective and the injective dimensions of almost all indecomposable modules equal one (see also [14]). This leads us to consider, for tilted algebras which are not concealed, the case when the projective (or injective) dimension of almost all indecomposable successors (or predecessors, respectively) of a complete slice equal two. In order to answer this question, we define the notions of left and right type of a tilted algebra, then those of reduced left and right types (see (2.2) and (3.4) for the definitions).

Détail

DOI : 10.1017/S0017089500030950

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