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Bounds on the global dimension of certain piecewise hereditary categories

Rings and Algebras 2008-05-26 v3 Representation Theory

Abstract

We give bounds on the global dimension of a finite length, piecewise hereditary category in terms of quantitative connectivity properties of its graph of indecomposables. We use this to show that the global dimension of a finite dimensional, piecewise hereditary algebra A cannot exceed 3 if A is an incidence algebra of a finite poset or more generally, a sincere algebra. This bound is tight.

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@article{arxiv.math/0607139,
  title  = {Bounds on the global dimension of certain piecewise hereditary categories},
  author = {Sefi Ladkani},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0607139},
  year   = {2008}
}

Comments

7 pages; slightly revised; to appear in J. Pure Appl. Algebra