The representation dimension of \(k[x,y]/(x^2,y^n)\). (Q855721)

Representation dimension was introduced by Auslander in 1971, and recently is studied in many papers. In the paper under review, the authors show that the representation dimension of the \(k\)-algebra \(k[x,y]/(x^2,y^{n+2})\) over a field \(k\) is three for all \(n\geq 0\). As a consequence of this result, the authors get the following corollary: Let \(k\) be a field of characteristic 2. Then for any \(n\geq 1\), the group algebra \(k(C_2\times C_{2^n})\) has representation dimension 3, where \(C_n\) stands for the cyclic group of order \(n\). Thus the main result of the paper provides many representation-wild group algebras of representation dimension \(3\).