Ringel's conjecture for domestic string algebras (Q907919): Difference between revisions

This paper is concerned with \textit{pure injective} modules for finite-dimensional algebras; that is, direct summands of direct products of finite-dimensional modules. These are very poorly understood in general -- for example, pure injective modules can be superdecomposable (i.e., have no indecomposable summands). Even if one considers only indecomposable pure injective modules, the situation is hard to understand, and the focus here is on a very restricted class of algebras: domestic string algebras. (String algebras are quiver algebras with certain restrictive rules on what relations are allowed; such an algebra is domestic if it has only finitely many `bands'.) The point of the paper is to prove a conjecture of Ringel classifying indecomposable pure injective modules over domestic string algebras. The paper -- especially the introduction -- is very well written with (mostly) clear diagrams, and the mathematics is on the whole easy to follow. I would have liked to see more detail in the definitions in Section 2 (the authors comment that they are brief here; given that the paper is not particularly long, I don't see why). The result is a paper which will be indispensable for experts, but perhaps not casual reading for other algebraists.