Let k be a field. A finite dimensional k-algebra is said to be minimal representation-infinite provided it is representation-infinite and all its proper factor algebras are representation-finite. Our aim is to classify the special biserial algebras which are minimal representation-infinite. The second part describes the corresponding module categories.
We provide a combinatorial algorithm for constructing the stable Auslander-Reiten component containing a given indecomposable module of a symmetric special biserial algebra using only information from its underlying Brauer graph. We also show that the structure of the Auslander-Reiten quiver is closely related to the distinct Green walks around the Brauer graph and detail the relationship between the precise shape of the stable Auslander-Reiten components for domestic Brauer graph algebras and their underlying graph. Furthermore, we show that the specific component containing a given simple or…
In this paper we treat the $τ$-tilting finiteness of biserial (respectively special biserial) algebras over algebraically closed (respectively arbitrary) fields. Inside these families, to compare the notions of representation-finiteness and $τ$-tilting finiteness, we reduce the problem to the $τ$-tilting finiteness of minimal representation-infinite (special) biserial algebras. Building upon the classification of minimal representation-infinite algebras, we fully determine which minimal representation-infinite (special) biserial algebras are $τ$-tilting finite and which ones are not. To do so,…
We determine the Gerstenhaber structure on the Hochschild cohomology ring of a class of self-injective special biserial algebras. Each of these algebras is presented as a quotient of the path algebra of a certain quiver. In degree one, we show that the cohomology is isomorphic, as a Lie algebra, to a direct sum of copies of a subquotient of the Virasoro algebra. These copies share Virasoro degree 0 and commute otherwise. Finally, we describe the cohomology in degree $n$ as a module over this Lie algebra by providing its decomposition as a direct sum of indecomposable modules.
We show that the irreducible components of any moduli space of semistable representations of a special biserial algebra are always isomorphic to products of projective spaces of various dimensions. This is done by showing that irreducible components of varieties of representations of special biserial algebras are isomorphic to irreducible components of products of varieties of circular complexes, and therefore normal, allowing us to apply recent results of the second and third authors on moduli spaces.
Let $\mathbf{k}$ be an algebraically closed field. In this article, inspired by the description of indecomposable objects in the derived category of a gentle algebra obtained by V. Bekkert and H. A. Merklen, we define string complexes for a certain class $\mathscr{C}$ of symmetric special biserial algebras, which are indecomposable perfect complexes in the corresponding derived category. We also prove that if $Λ$ is a $\mathbf{k}$-algebra in the class $\mathscr{C}$ and $P^\bullet$ is a string complex over $Λ$, then $P^\bullet$ lies in the rim of its Auslander-Reiten component.
We present discrete models of special biserial (SB) algebras and their string modules, drawing inspiration from cellular automata, and cast new light on patterns among syzygies. We explore applications of our models to open questions in homological algebra regarding certain triangulated subcategories of derived categories, with implications for the finitistic dimension conjectures. More pertinently, our models provide the inner workings for a new, original GAP package called SBStrips, written and implemented by the author. Its source code is freely available online and its documentation is inc…
Birge Huisgen-Zimmermann calls a finite dimensional algebra homologically tame provided the little and the big finitistic dimension are equal and finite. The question formulated in the title has been discussed by her in the paper "Representation-tame algebras need not be homologically tame", by looking for any $r > 0$ at a sequence of algebras $Λ_m$ with big finitistic dimension $r+m$. As we will show, also the little finitistic dimension of $Λ_m$ is r+m. It follows that contrary to her assertion, all her algebras $Λ_m$ are homologically tame.
In the representation theory of finite-dimensional algebras $A$ over a field, the classification of 2-term (pre)silting complexes is an important problem. One of the useful tool is the g-vector cones associated to the 2-term presilting complexes in the real Grothendieck group $K_0(\operatorname{\mathsf{proj}} A)_{\mathbb{R}}:=K_0(\operatorname{\mathsf{proj}} A) \otimes_{\mathbb{Z}} {\mathbb{R}}$. The aim of this paper is to study the complement $\operatorname{\mathsf{NR}}$ of the union $\operatorname{\mathsf{Cone}}$ of all g-vector cones, which we call the non-rigid region. By the work of Iyam…
We find a relationship between the global dimension of an algebra $A$ and the global dimension of the endomorphism algebra of a $τ$-tilting module, when $A$ is of finite global dimension. We show that, in general, the global dimension of the endomorphism algebra is not always finite. For monomial algebras and special biserial algebras of global dimension two, we prove that the global dimension of the endomorphism algebra of any $τ$-tilting module is always finite. Moreover, for special biserial algebras, we give an explicit bound.
Let $k$ be an arbitrary field, $Λ$ be a $k$-algebra and $V$ be a $Λ$-module. When it exists, the universal deformation ring $R(Λ,V)$ of $V$ is a $k$-algebra whose local homomorphisms to $R$ parametrize the lifts of $V$ up to $R\otimes_k Λ$, where $R$ is any complete, local commutative Noetherian $k$-algebra with residue field $k$. Symmetric special biserial algebras, which coincide with Brauer graph algebras, can be viewed as generalizing the blocks of finite type $p$-modular group algebras. Bleher and Wackwitz classified the universal deformation rings for all modules for symmetric special bi…
We treat the $τ$-tilting finiteness of those minimal representation-infinite (min-rep-infinite) algebras which are non-distributive. Building upon the new results of Bongartz, we fully determine which algebras in this family are $τ$-tilting finite and which ones are not. This complements our previous work in which we carried out a similar analysis for the min-rep-infinite biserial algebras. Consequently, we obtain nontrivial explicit sufficient conditions for $τ$-tilting infiniteness of a large family of algebras. This also produces concrete families of "minimal $τ$-tilting infinite algebras"-…
In this paper, motivated by a $τ$-tilting version of the Brauer-Thrall Conjectures, we study general properties of band modules and their endomorphisms in the module category of a finite dimensional algebra. As an application we describe properties of torsion classes containing band modules. Furthermore, we show that a special biserial algebra is $τ$-tilting finite if and only if no band module is a brick. We also recover a criterion for the $τ$-tilting finiteness of Brauer graph algebras in terms of the Brauer graph.
For a finite-dimensional gentle algebra, it is already known that the functorially finite torsion classes of its category of finite-dimensional modules can be classified using a combinatorial interpretation, called maximal non-crossing sets of strings, of the corresponding support $τ$-tilting module (or equivalently, two-term silting complexes). In the topological interpretation of gentle algebras via marked surfaces, such a set can be interpreted as a dissection (or partial triangulation), or equivalently, a lamination that does not contain a closed curve. We will refine this combinatorics, w…
Let $G=SL(2,5)$ be the special linear group of $2 \times 2$-matrices with coefficients in the field with $5$ elements. We show that the principal block over a splitting field $K$ of characteristic two of the group algebra $KG$ has a $3$-cluster tilting module. This gives the first example of a representation-infinite block of a group algebra having a cluster tilting module and answers a question by Erdmann and Holm.
The classification of irreducible, spherical characters of the infinite-dimensional unitary/orthogonal/symplectic groups can be obtained by finding all possible limits of normalized, irreducible characters of the corresponding finite-dimensional groups, as the rank tends to infinity. We solve a q-deformed version of the latter problem for orthogonal and symplectic groups, extending previously known results for the unitary group. The proof is based on novel determinantal and double-contour integral formulas for the q-specialized characters.
