{ "id": "1405.5429", "version": "v2", "published": "2014-05-21T14:08:55.000Z", "updated": "2015-08-22T16:12:19.000Z", "title": "Homological dimensions for co-rank one idempotent subalgebras", "authors": [ "Colin Ingalls", "Charles Paquette" ], "comment": "24 pages", "categories": [ "math.RT" ], "abstract": "Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field and $A$ be a (left and right) Noetherian associative $k$-algebra. Assume further that $A$ is either positively graded or semiperfect (this includes the class of finite dimensional $k$-algebras, and $k$-algebras that are finitely generated modules over a Noetherian central Henselian ring). Let $e$ be a primitive idempotent of $A$, which we assume is of degree $0$ if $A$ is positively graded. We consider the idempotent subalgebra $\\Gamma = (1-e)A(1-e)$ and $S_e$ the simple right $A$-module $S_e = eA/e{\\rm rad}A$, where ${\\rm rad}A$ is the Jacobson radical of $A$, or the graded Jacobson radical of $A$ if $A$ is positively graded. In this paper, we relate the homological dimensions of $A$ and $\\Gamma$, using the homological properties of $S_e$. First, if $S_e$ has no self-extensions of any degree, then the global dimension of $A$ is finite if and only if that of $\\Gamma$ is. On the other hand, if the global dimensions of both $A$ and $\\Gamma$ are finite, then $S_e$ cannot have self-extensions of degree greater than one, provided $A/{\\rm rad}A$ is finite dimensional.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2014-05-21T14:08:55.000Z", "abstract": "Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field and $A$ be a (left and right) Noetherian associative $k$-algebra. Assume further that $A$ is either positively graded or semiperfect (this includes the class of finite dimensional $k$-algebras, and $k$-algebras that are finitely generated modules over a Noetherian central Henselian ring). Let $e$ be a primitive idempotent of $A$, which we assume is of degree $0$ if $A$ is not semiperfect but positively graded. We consider the idempotent subalgebra $\\Gamma = (1-e)A(1-e)$ and $S_e$ the simple right $A$-module $S_e = eA/e{\\rm rad}A$, where ${\\rm rad}A$ is the Jacobson radical of $A$, or the graded Jacobson radical of $A$ if $A$ is not semiperfect but positively graded. In this paper, we relate the homological dimensions of $A$ and $\\Gamma$, using the homological properties of $S_e$. First, if $S_e$ has no self-extensions of any degree, then the global dimension of $A$ is finite if and only if that of $\\Gamma$ is. On the other hand, if the global dimensions of both $A$ and $\\Gamma$ are finite, it seems that $S_e$ cannot have self-extensions of degree greater than one. We prove this in the positively graded case, and for the semiperfect case, we get a partial answer: it holds when the projective dimension of $S_e$ is at most five.", "journal": null, "doi": null }, { "version": "v2", "updated": "2015-08-22T16:12:19.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "16E10", "16G10" ], "keywords": [ "idempotent subalgebra", "homological dimensions", "global dimension", "jacobson radical" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 24, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable", "adsabs": "2014arXiv1405.5429I" } } }