Auslander-Reiten theory and applications in representation theory and commutative algebra, under the code of Elective course 1 for Mathematical Structures (NMAG498) - information about the course in the winter semester 2024/2025.

Basic information

If one has a finite dimensional algebra or a commutative noetherian algebra over a field, one might ask how the category of finitely generated modules looks like. Although this is a very difficult problem in general, in many interesting cases one can describe the category in terms of generating homomorphisms and relations between them, using techniques developed by Maurice Auslander and Idun Reiten. These generating morphisms form a directed graph, which is called the Auslander-Reiten quiver, so one even can depict these categories graphically.

The aim of the course is to explain this piece of theory and illustrate it on examples of finite dimensional algebras and coordinate rings of isolated singularities. The plan is as follows:

  1. Motivation.
  2. Auslander-Reiten theory: the Jacobson radical of an additive category, irreducible morphisms, almost split morphisms and Auslander-Reiten sequences.
  3. Examples from representation theory of finite dimensional algebras.
  4. Background in commutative algebra: isolated singularities, Gorenstein rings, Cohen--Macaulay modules.
  5. Examples from commutative algebra.

Basic information about the course can be also found in the Student Information System.

Schedule (to be found also in the Student Information System): Wednesdays at 12:20 in the seminar room of the Department of Algebras. The first lecture starts on October 9.

Exam

The exam will be oral, please contact us (me and Souvik Dey) to agree on a time.

Program of the course

A brief overview of what has been taught will appear here.

Literature

[ASS] I. Assem, D. Simson, A. Skowroński, Elements of the representation theory of associative algebras, Vol. 1,London Math. Soc. Stud. Texts, vol. 65, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2006.
[Au1] M. Auslander, Isolated singularities and existence of almost split sequences, in: Representation Theory, II, Ottawa, Ont., 1984, in: Lecture Notes in Math., vol. 1178, Springer, Berlin, 1986.
[Au2] M. Auslander, Representation theory of Artin algebras II, Comm. Algebra 1 (1974) 269--310.
[ARS] M. Auslander, I. Reiten, S. Smalø, Representation theory of Artin algebras, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
[En1] H. Enomoto, Classifications of exact structures and Cohen–Macaulay-finite algebras, Adv. Math. 335 (2018), pp. 838-877.
[En2] H. Enomoto, Relations for Grothendieck groups and representation-finiteness, J. Alg. 539 (2019), pp. 152-176.
[Kr] H. Krause, A short proof for Auslander's defect formula, Special issue on linear algebra methods in representation theory, Linear Algebra Appl. 365 (2003), pp. 267-270.
[LW] G. J. Leuschke, R. Wiegand, Cohen-Macaulay Representations, Mathematical Surveys and Monographs, vol. 181, American Mathematical Society.
[Yo] Y. Yoshino, Cohen-Macaulay Modules over Cohen–Macaulay Rings, London Mathematical Society, Lecture Note Series, vol. 146, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1990.