Indecomposable representations of the Kronecker quivers

Claus Michael Ringel

Published 2010-09-28, updated 2010-09-29Version 2

Let k be a field and A the n-Kronecker algebra, this is the path algebra of the quiver with 2 vertices, a source and a sink, and n arrows from the source to the sink. It is well-known that the dimension vectors of the indecomposable A-modules are the positive roots of the corresponding Kac-Moody algebra. Thorsten Weist has shown that for every positive root there are even tree modules with this dimension vector and that for every positive imaginary root there are at least n tree modules. Here, we present a short proof of this result. The considerations used also provide a calculation-free proof that all exceptional modules over the path algebra of a finite quiver are tree modules.