$τ$-exceptional sequences

Aslak Bakke Buan, Robert J. Marsh

Published 2018-02-04Version 1

We introduce the notions of $\tau$-exceptional and signed $\tau$-exceptional sequences for any finite dimensional algebra. We prove that for a fixed algebra of rank $n$, and for any positive integer $t \leq n$, there is a bijection between the set of such sequences of length $t$, and (basic) ordered support $\tau$-rigid objects with $t$ indecomposable direct summands. If the algebra is hereditary, our notions coincide with exceptional and signed exceptional sequences. The latter were recently introduced by Igusa and Todorov, who constructed a similar bijection in the hereditary setting.