English

Pure semisimplicity conjecture and Artin problem for dimension sequences

Rings and Algebras 2021-03-02 v3

Abstract

Inspired by a recent paper due to Jos\'{e} Luis Garc\'{i}a, we revisit the attempt of Daniel Simson to construct a counterexample to the pure semisimplicity conjecture. Using compactness, we show that the existence of such counterexample would readily follow from the very existence of certain (countable set of) hereditary artinian rings of finite representation type. The existence of such rings is then proved to be equivalent to the existence of special types of embeddings, which we call tight, of division rings into simple artinian rings. Using the tools by Aidan Schofield from 1980s, we can show that such an embedding FMn(G)F\hookrightarrow M_n(G) exists provided that n<5n<5. As a byproduct, we obtain a division ring extension GFG\subseteq F such that the bimodule GFF{}_GF_F has the right dimension sequence (1,2,2,2,1,4)(1,2,2,2,1,4). Finally, we formulate Conjecture A, which asserts that a particular type of adjunction of an element to a division ring can be made, and demonstrate that its validity would be sufficient to prove the existence of tight embeddings in general, and hence to disprove the pure semisimplicity conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.1909.13864,
  title  = {Pure semisimplicity conjecture and Artin problem for dimension sequences},
  author = {Jan Šaroch},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1909.13864},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

11 pages; slightly revised (e.g. new Lemma 1.3 added), minor typos corrected

R2 v1 2026-06-23T11:30:36.256Z