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Krull-Remak-Schmidt decompositions in Hom-finite additive categories

Representation Theory 2024-08-23 v2 Category Theory

Abstract

An additive category in which each object has a Krull-Remak-Schmidt decomposition -- that is, a finite direct sum decomposition consisting of objects with local endomorphism rings -- is known as a Krull-Schmidt category. A Hom-finite category is an additive category A\mathcal{A} for which there is a commutative unital ring kk, such that each Hom-set in A\mathcal{A} is a finite length kk-module. The aim of this note is to provide a proof that a Hom-finite category is Krull-Schmidt, if and only if it has split idempotents, if and only if each indecomposable object has a local endomorphism ring.

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@article{arxiv.2209.00337,
  title  = {Krull-Remak-Schmidt decompositions in Hom-finite additive categories},
  author = {Amit Shah},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.00337},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

v2: 17 pages, added reference Chen--Ye--Zhang, typos corrected and some minor changes. v1: 17 pages, comments welcome!