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This paper introduces higher spherical algebras, a new class of finite-dimensional algebras, and proves their derived equivalence to higher tetrahedral algebras, establishing their tameness, symmetry, and periodicity.
Contribution
It defines higher spherical algebras and shows they are derived equivalent to known higher tetrahedral algebras, revealing their tame symmetric periodic nature.
Findings
Higher spherical algebras are derived equivalent to higher tetrahedral algebras.
They are tame symmetric periodic algebras of period four.
The study expands understanding of algebra classifications and derived equivalences.
Abstract
We introduce and study higher spherical algebras, an exotic family of finite-dimensional algebras over an algebraically closed field. We prove that every such an algebra is derived equivalent to a higher tetrahedral algebra studied in [7], an hence that it is a tame symmetric periodic algebra of period four.
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Higher spherical algebras
Karin Erdmann
Mathematical Institute, Oxford University, ROQ, Oxford OX2 6GG, United Kingdom
and
Andrzej Skowroński
Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Chopina 12/18, 87-100 Toruń, Poland
Abstract.
We introduce and study higher spherical algebras, an exotic family of finite-dimensional algebras over an algebraically closed field. We prove that every such an algebra is derived equivalent to a higher tetrahedral algebra studied in [9], and hence that it is a tame symmetric periodic algebra of period .
1. Introduction and main results
Throughout this paper, will denote a fixed algebraically closed field. By an algebra we mean an associative finite-dimensional -algebra with an identity. For an algebra , we denote by the category of finite-dimensional right -modules and by the standard duality on . An algebra is called self-injective if is injective in , or equivalently, the projective modules in are injective. A prominent class of self-injective algebras is formed by the symmetric algebras for which there exists an associative, non-degenerate symmetric -bilinear form . Classical examples of symmetric algebras are provided by the blocks of group algebras of finite groups and the Hecke algebras of finite Coxeter groups. In fact, any algebra is a quotient algebra of its trivial extension algebra , which is a symmetric algebra.
For an algebra , the module category of its enveloping algebra is the category of finite-dimensional --bimodules. We denote by the syzygy operator in which assigns to a module in the kernel of a minimal projective cover of in . An algebra is called periodic if in for some , and if so the minimal such is called the period of . Periodic algebras are self-injective and have periodic Hochschild cohomology.
Finding or possibly classifying periodic algebras is an important problem. It is very interesting because of connections with group theory, topology, singularity theory and cluster algebras.
We are concerned with the classification of all periodic tame symmetric algebras. In [6] Dugas proved that every representation-finite self-injective algebra, without simple blocks, is a periodic algebra. The representation-infinite, indecomposable, periodic algebras of polynomial growth were classified by Białkowski, Erdmann and Skowroński in [4]. It is conjuctered in [8, Problem] that every indecomposable symmetric periodic tame algebra of non-polynomial growth is of period . Prominent classes of tame symmetric algebras of period are provided by the weighted surface algebras and their deformations investigated in [8], [9], [10], [11].
In this article we introduce and study higher spherical algebras, which are “higher analogs” of the non-singular spherical algebras introduced in [11], and provide a new exotic family of tame symmetric periodic algebras of period .
Let be a natural number and . We denote by the algebra given by the quiver of the form
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and the relations:
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We call with a higher spherical algebra. For , this is the non-singular spherical algebra investigated in [11, Section 3]. The above quiver is its Gabriel quiver, and is a surface algebra (in the sense of [11]) given by the following triangulation of the sphere in
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with the coherent orientation of triangles: (1 2 5), (2 3 5), (3 4 6), (4 1 6). We note that the non-singular spherical algebras in [11] appear since in the general setting for weighted surface algebras we allow ‘virtual’ arrows.
The following two theorems describe basic properties of higher spherical algebras.
Theorem 1**.**
Let be a higher spherical algebra. Then is a finite-dimensional algebra with .
Theorem 2**.**
Let be a higher spherical algebra. Then the following statements hold:
- (i)
* is a symmetric algebra.* 2. (ii)
* is a periodic algebra of period .* 3. (iii)
* is a tame algebra of non-polynomial growth.*
It follows from the above theorems that the higher spherical algebras , , , form an exotic family of algebras of generalized quaternion type (in the sense of [10]) whose Gabriel quiver is not -regular. The classification of the Morita equivalence classes of all algebras of generalized quaternion type with -regular Gabriel quivers having at least three vertices has been established in [10, Main Theorem]. During the work on this, surprisingly, we discovered new algebras, which we call higher tetrahedral algebras , , , They are introduced and studied in [9] (see Section 3 for definition and properties).
The following theorem relates these two classes of algebras.
Theorem 3**.**
Let be a natural number and . Then the algebras and are derived equivalent.
Then Theorem 2 is the consequence of Theorem 3, by applying general theory as described in Theorems 2.3, 2.4, 2.5, and Theorem 3.1.
For general background on the relevant representation theory we refer to the books [3], [12], [17], [18].
2. Derived equivalences
In this section we collect some facts on derived equivalences of algebras which are needed in the proofs of Theorems 2 and 3.
Let be an algebra over . We denote by the derived category of , which is the localization of the homotopy category of bounded complexes of modules from with respect to quasi-isomorphisms. Moreover, let be the subcategory of given by the complexes of projective modules in . Two algebras and are called derived equivalent if the derived categories and are equivalent as triangulated categories. The triangulated structure is induced by shift in degrees of complexes. Following J. Rickard [14], a complex in is called a tilting complex if the following properties are satisfied:
- (1)
for all in , 2. (2)
the full subcategory of consisting of direct summands of direct sums of copies of generates as a triangulated category.
Here, denotes the translation functor by shifting any complex one degree to the left.
The following theorem is due to J. Rickard [14, Theorem 6.4].
Theorem 2.1**.**
Two algebras and are derived equivalent if and only if there is a tilting complex in such that .
We will need the following special case of an alternating sum formula established by D. Happel in [12, Sections III.1.3 and III.1.4].
Proposition 2.2**.**
Let be an algebra and , two complexes in such that for any in . Then
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We note that the right-hand side of the above formula can easily be computed using the Cartan matrix of .
We end this section with the following collection of important results.
Theorem 2.3**.**
Let and be derived equivalent algebras. Then is symmetric if and only if is symmetric.
Proof.
This is [16, Corollary 5.3]. ∎
Theorem 2.4**.**
Let and be derived equivalent algebras. Then is periodic if and only if is periodic. Moreover, if so, then they have the same period.
Proof.
See [7, Theorem 2.9]. ∎
Theorem 2.5**.**
Let and be derived equivalent selfinjective algebras. Then the following equivalences hold.
- (i)
* is tame if and only if is tame.* 2. (ii)
* is of polynomial growth if and only if is of polynomial growth.*
Proof.
It follows from the assumption and [15, Corollary 2.2] (see also [16, Corollary 5.3]) that the algebras and are stably equivalent. Then the equivalences (i) and (ii) hold by [5, Theorems 4.4 and 5.6] and [13, Corollary 2]. ∎
3. Higher tetrahedral algebras
In this section we recall some facts on higher tetrahedral algebras established in [9], which will be crucial in the proofs of Theorems 1 and 2.
Consider the tetrahedron
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with the coherent orientation of triangles: , , , . Then, following [8, Section 6], we have the associated triangulation quiver of the form
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where is the permutation of arrows of order described by the four shaded -cycles. We denote by the permutation on the set of arrows of whose -orbits are the four white -cycles.
Let be a natural number and . Following [9], the (non-singular) tetrahedral algebra of degree is the algebra given by the above quiver and the relations:
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The following theorem follows from Theorems 1, 2, 3 proved in [9] and describes some basic properties of higher tetrahedral algebras.
Theorem 3.1**.**
Let be a higher tetrahedral algebra with and . Then the following statements hold:
- (i)
* is a finite-dimensional algebra with .* 2. (ii)
* is a symmetric algebra.* 3. (iii)
* is a periodic algebra of period .* 4. (iv)
* is a tame algebra of non-polynomial growth.*
The following proposition follows from [9, Section 4].
Proposition 3.2**.**
Let be a higher tetrahedral algebra with and . Then the Cartan matrix of is of the form
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4. Proof of Theorem 1
In this section we describe the Cartan matrices of higher spherical algebras.
Let be a higher spherical algebra with and . We start by collecting further identities in , they follow directly from the relations defining .
Lemma 4.1**.**
The following relations hold in :
- (i)
* and .* 2. (ii)
* and .* 3. (iii)
* and .* 4. (iv)
* and .* 5. (v)
* and , for .*
For example, consider part (i). We have We postmultiply this with and get zero since . The second part follows, by rewriting the first part and premultiply with . For part (v), starting with
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and squaring, one gets and (v) follows by induction.
Using the relations, it is easy to write down bases for the indecomposable projective modules, and prove the following.
Proposition 4.2**.**
The Cartan matrix of is of the form
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In particular, .
5. Proof of Theorem 3
Let for some fixed and . For each vertex of the quiver defining , we denote by the associated indecomposable projective module in . Moreover, for any arrow from to , we denote by the homomorphism in given by the left multiplication by . We consider the following complexes in :
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concentrated in degree [math], and
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concentrated in degrees and [math]. Moreover, we set
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Lemma 5.1**.**
* is a tilting complex in .*
Proof.
It is sufficient to show the equalities
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for . The first equalities hold, because any nonzero homomorphism with factors through . The second equalities hold, because for any nonzero with , the composition is nonzero. ∎
We define , and note that , , form a complete family of pairwise non-isomorphic indecomposable projective modules in . We abbreviate , and use the ordering , , of the indecomposable projective modules in corresponding to the numbering of vertices of the quiver defining . In this notation, we have the following lemma.
Lemma 5.2**.**
The Cartan matrices and coincide. In particular, the algebras and have the same dimension .
Proof.
This follows by the computation of the dimensions , , using Proposition 2.2 and the form of the Cartan matrix of presented in Proposition 3.2. For example, the first row of is of the form , because
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∎
We define now irreducible morphisms between the summands of in :
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We obtain then the irreducible homomorphisms between the indecomposable projective modules in
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which are representatives of all irreducible homomorphisms between the modules , , in . This shows that the Gabriel quiver of is the quiver
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being the quiver defining the algebra .
Theorem 5.3**.**
The algebras and are isomorphic.
Proof.
We first prove that the following identities hold in :
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For (1), it is enough to show that . We have and , with in , and so the required equality holds.
For (2), it is enough to show that . We have and . Moreover, we have in the equalities
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and in . Hence the required equality holds.
For (3), we prove that in . We have
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Moreover, we have the following commutative diagram in
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because and in . This proves the claim.
For (4), we note that and , with .
For (5), we prove equality . Observe that,
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and hence the required equality holds.
For (6), we prove that in . We first observe that
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Moreover, , and hence
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But then
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Further, we have the following commutative diagram in
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because in . This shows that in , and hence the required equality holds.
For (7), we prove that . We have
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and , in . Furthermore,
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Hence we obtain
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We note that
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Therefore, the required equality holds.
For (8), we have to show that . We have
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and then
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Hence the required equality holds.
For (9), we observe that
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and this is zero, because in , the element belongs to the socle of (see [9, Lemma 4.2]).
For (10), we observe that , and therefore
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Then, we have in the commutative diagram
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because is the path of length in from to , and hence the zero path in , by [9, Lemma 4.5]. Therefore, in , and equality (10) holds.
We also observe that, in , we have by (1) and (4) that .
To obtain the defining relations for , we replace by . Then identities (1), (2), (3), (7), (8) are replaced by the following identities:
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Therefore, after replacing by , the relations defining the algebra are satisfied. Then, applying Lemma 5.2, we conclude that algebras and are isomorphic. ∎
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