Bridgeland's Hall algebras and Heisenberg doubles
Haicheng Zhang

TL;DR
This paper introduces the $m$-periodic lattice algebra for a hereditary algebra and proves its isomorphism with Bridgeland's Hall algebra, also embedding the Heisenberg double Hall algebra into it, revealing new algebraic structures.
Contribution
It defines the $m$-periodic lattice algebra and establishes its isomorphism with Bridgeland's Hall algebra, also embedding the Heisenberg double Hall algebra, advancing understanding of algebraic structures related to hereditary algebras.
Findings
The algebra $L_m(A)$ is isomorphic to Bridgeland's Hall algebra $ ext{DH}_m(A)$.
An embedding of the Heisenberg double Hall algebra into $ ext{DH}_m(A)$ is constructed.
The paper connects lattice algebras with Hall algebras in the context of hereditary algebras.
Abstract
Let be a finite dimensional hereditary algebra over a finite field, and let be a fixed integer such that or . In the present paper, we first define an algebra associated to , called the -periodic lattice algebra of , and then prove that it is isomorphic to Bridgeland's Hall algebra of -cyclic complexes over projective -modules. Moreover, we show that there is an embedding of the Heisenberg double Hall algebra of into .
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TopicsAlgebraic structures and combinatorial models · Advanced Topics in Algebra · Advanced Algebra and Geometry
Bridgeland’s Hall algebras and Heisenberg doubles
Haicheng Zhang
Institute of Mathematics, School of Mathematical Sciences, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing 210023, P. R. China.
Yau Mathematical Sciences Center, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, P. R. China.
Abstract.
Let be a finite dimensional hereditary algebra over a finite field, and let be a fixed integer such that or . In the present paper, we first define an algebra associated to , called the -periodic lattice algebra of , and then prove that it is isomorphic to Bridgeland’s Hall algebra of -cyclic complexes over projective -modules. Moreover, we show that there is an embedding of the Heisenberg double Hall algebra of into .
Key words and phrases:
-periodic lattice algebra; Bridgeland’s Hall algebra; Heisenberg double.
2010 Mathematics Subject Classification:
16G20, 17B20, 17B37.
1. Introduction
The Hall algebra of a finite dimensional algebra over a finite field was introduced by Ringel [6] in 1990. Ringel [5, 6] proved that if is representation-finite and hereditary, the twisted Hall algebra , called the Ringel–Hall algebra, is isomorphic to the positive part of the corresponding quantized enveloping algebra. By introducing a bialgebra structure on , Green [3] generalized Ringel’s work to an arbitrary finite dimensional hereditary algebra and showed that the composition subalgebra of generated by simple -modules gives a realization of the positive part of the quantized enveloping algebra associated with .
In order to give a Hall algebra realization of the entire quantized enveloping algebra, one considers defining the Hall algebras of triangulated categories (for example, [4], [9], [10], [11]). Kapranov [4] defined an associative algebra, called the lattice algebra, for the bounded derived category of any hereditary algebra. By using the fibre products of model categories, Toën [9] defined an associative algebra, called the derived Hall algebra, for DG-enhanced triangulated categories. Later on, Xiao and Xu [11] generalized the definition of the derived Hall algebra to any triangulated category with some homological finiteness conditions. In [8], Sheng and Xu proved that for each hereditary algebra the lattice algebra of is isomorphic to its twisted and extended derived Hall algebra.
In 2013, for each finite dimensional hereditary algebra over a finite field, Bridgeland [1] defined an algebra associated to , called Bridgeland’s Hall algebra of A, which is the Ringel–Hall algebra of -cyclic complexes over projective -modules with some localization and reduction. He proved that the quantized enveloping algebra associated to the hereditary algebra A can be embedded into Bridgeland’s Hall algebra of . This provides a realization of the full quantized enveloping algebra by Hall algebras. Afterwards, Yanagida [12] showed that Bridgeland’s Hall algebra of -cyclic complexes of any finite dimensional hereditary algebra is isomorphic to the (reduced) Drinfeld double of its extended Ringel–Hall algebra. Inspired by the work of Bridgeland, Chen and Deng [2] considered Bridgeland’s Hall algebra of -cyclic complexes of a hereditary algebra for each non-negative integer .
In this paper, let be a finite dimensional hereditary algebra over a finite field. For any non-negative integer or we first define an -periodic lattice algebra, and then use it to give a characterization of the algebra structure on . Explicitly, we show that Bridgeland’s Hall algebra is isomorphic to the -periodic lattice algebra. As a byproduct, we show that there is an embedding of the Heisenberg double Hall algebra of into .
Throughout the paper, let be a non-negative integer such that or , let be a fixed finite field with elements and set . Denote by a finite dimensional -algebra. We denote by and the category of finite dimensional (left) -modules and its bounded derived category, respectively, and denote by the full subcategory of consisting of projective -modules. Let be the Grothendieck group of and the set of isoclasses (isomorphism classes) of -modules. For an -module , the class of in is denoted by , and the automorphism group of is denoted by . For a finite set , we denote by its cardinality. We also write for . For a complex of -modules, its homology is denoted by . For a positive integer , we denote the quotient ring by . By convention, .
2. Preliminaries
In this section, we summarize some necessary definitions and properties. All of the materials can be found in [1], [2], [7] and [13].
2.1. -cyclic complexes
Let be a positive integer. Given an additive category , an -cyclic complex over consists of objects and morphisms in satisfying for all . Hence, each -cyclic complex can be diagrammed by
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with for all . A morphism between two -cyclic complexes and is given by morphisms in satisfying for all .
Let and be two morphisms between -cyclic complexes and . We say that is homotopic to if there exist morphisms in such that for all . The category of -cyclic complexes over is denoted by , and denotes the homotopy category of by identifying homotopic morphisms. As in usual complex categories, one can define quasi-isomorphisms in and , and then get a triangulated category, denoted by , by localizing with respect to the set of all quasi-isomorphisms. We write , and for the category of bounded complexes, its homotopy category and derived category, respectively.
For each integer , there is a shift functor
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where is defined by
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Recall that is a finite dimensional -algebra throughout the paper. Applying the above construction to , we obtain the categories and . In the sense of chain-wise exactness, is a Frobenius exact category.
For an arbitrary homomorphism of projective -modules, define by
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So each projective -module determines an object in .
The following lemma taken from [2] is important in the later calculations.
Lemma 2.1**.**
([2, Lem. 2.5])* If , then there exists an isomorphism of vector spaces*
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Let be the natural covering functor from to with Galois group . Let be the orbit category of with respect to the shift functor .
Lemma 2.2**.**
If is of finite global dimension, then induces a fully faithful functor
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Proof..
Since is of finite global dimension, we can equally well define as the orbit category of . Then it is easy to see that induces a fully faithful functor ∎
An -cyclic complex of -modules is called acyclic if . For each -module , for all are acyclic. Clearly, for any complex , is acyclic if in . The following lemma gives a characterization of all acyclic complexes in .
Lemma 2.3**.**
([1, Lem. 3.2];[13, Lem. 2.2])* Suppose that is of finite global dimension. Then for each acyclic complex , there exist objects , , such that . Moreover, these projective -modules are uniquely determined up to isomorphism.*
2.2. Hall algebras
Given -modules , we define to be the subset of , which consists of those equivalence classes of short exact sequences with middle term . We define the Hall algebra to be the vector space over with basis and with associative multiplication defined by
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where
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and it is called the Ringel–Hall number associated to -modules .
From now on, we suppose that is hereditary. For , define
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It induces a bilinear form
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known as the Euler form. We also consider the symmetric Euler form
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defined by for all .
The twisted Hall algebra , called the Ringel–Hall algebra, is the same vector space as but with twisted multiplication defined by
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We can form the extended Ringel–Hall algebra by adjoining symbols for and imposing relations
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Definition 2.4**.**
The twisted Hall algebra of is the vector space over with basis indexed by the isoclasses of objects in , and with multiplication defined by
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where .
It is easy to see that is an associative algebra (cf. [1, 2]). By some simple calculations, we have the following relations for the acyclic complexes , .
Lemma 2.5**.**
([13])* Let , and . We have the following identities for each in *
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In particular,
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Set . By Lemma 2.5, the set satisfies the Ore conditions. So one considers the localization of with respect to the set (cf. [1, 2]).
Definition 2.6**.**
The localized Hall algebra of , called Bridgeland’s Hall algebra, is the localization of with respect to the set . Since is invertible, in symbols,
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For any and , by writing in the form for some -modules , we define
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and it is easy to see that
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We simply write for . Note that the identities – continue to hold with the elements and replaced by and , respectively, for all .
Each -module has a unique minimal projective resolution up to isomorphism of the form 111For each fixed -module , we fix a minimal projective resolution (2.8) of using notations and throughout the paper.
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Given an -module , we take a minimal projective resolution (2.8) of , and consider the corresponding -cyclic complex . Since the uniqueness of the minimal projective resolution up to isomorphism, the complex is well-defined up to isomorphism. By [1, 2], for each , we define
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For each , set . We also simply write and for and , respectively. Let us reformulate a result from [2, Prop. 4.4].
Proposition 2.7**.**
There is an embedding of algebras for each
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Moreover, the multiplication map induces an isomorphism of vector spaces
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Remark 2.8**.**
If , then the tensor product in Proposition 2.7 is an infinite tensor. Here and elsewhere in this paper all infinite tensor products are understood in the restricted sense (cf. [4, Sec. 3.2]). means the ordered product of the elements : .
3. Heisenberg doubles
Recall that is a finite dimensional hereditary -algebra. First of all, we give a counting symbol. For any fixed , we denote by the set
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and set
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Let be the Heisenberg double of the extended Ringel–Hall algebra (cf. [4, Sec. 1.5]). By definition, is an associative and unital -algebra generated by elements and with and , which are subject to the following relations:
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Clearly, is naturally related to the subcategory of the derived category , which is consisting of two copies of inside given by complexes concentrated in degrees [math] and . In other words, gives rise to two copies of with Heisenberg double-type commutation relations (cf. [4, Prop. 1.5.3]). Moreover, Kapranov [4, Def. 3.1] introduced an associative and unital -algebra , called the lattice algebra of , by taking not just two but infinitely many copies of and one copy of the group algebra , and by imposing Heisenberg double-like commutation relations between adjacent copies of and oscillator relations of the form , between basis vectors of non-adjacent copies. In a similar manner to [4, Def. 3.1], we give the following definition.
Definition 3.1**.**
The -periodic lattice algebra of is the associative and unital -algebra generated by the elements in and with the following relations:
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Theorem 3.2**.**
Bridgeland’s Hall algebra is isomorphic to the -periodic lattice algebra .
Proof..
First of all, we claim that there is a homomorphism of algebras
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defined by and . That is to say, preserves the relations –. Indeed, by the identities (2.7) and , clearly, the relation is preserved. By the identities and , for any and , it is easy to see that
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Hence, the relation is preserved. By Proposition 2.7, the relation is preserved. Let us first consider the relation (3.5). Let and or 1 in , then
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Similarly, for or in , we obtain that . So it is easy to see that for or , we have
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Hence,
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Namely, . So the relation is preserved. We remove the proof of the relation to the next section and prove that is an isomorphism right now.
For each , let be the subalgebra of generated by the elements in and . Then, clearly, the multiplication map of induces an epimorphism of vector spaces
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For each , let be the subalgebra of generated by the elements in and . Then, by Proposition 2.7, for each , induces an algebra isomorphism
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moreover, there exists an isomorphism of vector spaces
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Hence, we have the following commutative diagram
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Since is an isomorphism, we obtain that is injective, and thus it is an isomorphism. So is an isomorphism. ∎
Corollary 3.3**.**
For each , there exists an embedding of algebras
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Proof..
For each , clearly, the map
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is an embedding of algebras. ∎
4. The proof of the relation (3.4) in Theorem 3.2
Consider an extension of by
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It induces a long exact sequence in homology
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Clearly, and for any . Hence, by writing
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for some and , we obtain an exact sequence of -modules
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where is determined by the equivalence class of via the canonical isomorphisms
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Clearly, splits if and only if . By considering the kernels and cokernels of differentials in and , we obtain that
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It is easy to see that for any and ,
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Let .
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It is easy to see that , where and . So we obtain that
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Clearly, , thus we get that
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Since , we have
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Hence, Therefore,
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where . So,
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where , . Since and , we obtain that
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where .
Using the exact sequence (4.1), isomorphisms in (4.2) and the respective minimal projective resolutions (2.8) of , we obtain that
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Hence, for any ,
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Therefore, we complete the proof.
Acknowledgments
The author is grateful to Bangming Deng and Jie Sheng for their stimulating discussions and valuable comments. He also would like to thank the anonymous referee for modification suggestions.
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