The Jacobson radical power series of module categories and the representation type (Q1977158)

Let \(R\) be a right Artinian ring and \(\text{mod }R\) the category of finitely generated right \(R\)-modules. In this paper the authors study the representation type properties of \(\text{mod }R\) by means of the vanishing properties of the infinite Jacobson radical \(\text{rad}^\infty(\text{mod }R)\) of \(\text{mod }R\). They show that if \(R\) is a hereditary ring or a PI-ring, then the infinite Jacobson radical \(\text{rad}^\infty(\text{mod }R)\) of \(\text{mod }R\) is zero if and only if \(R\) is of finite representation type. (It is asked in the paper whether this result remains true for any right Artinian ring.) It is also proved that if \(R\) is a strongly simply connected finite dimensional algebra over an algebraically closed field \(K\), then the following conditions are equivalent: (i) \(R\) is representation-tame and domestic; (ii) The infinite Jacobson radical \(\text{rad}^\infty(\text{mod }R)\) of \(\text{mod }R\) is right \(T\)-nilpotent; (iii) The square of \((\text{rad}^\infty(\text{mod }R))^\infty\) is zero. The authors conclude the paper with a list of interesting open problems related to the results in the paper.