Automorphisms of tiled orders

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Abstract: Let Lambda be a tiled R-order. We give a description of Aut_R(Lambda) as the semidirect product of Inn(Lambda) and a certain subgroup of Aut(Q(Lambda)), where Q(Lambda) is the link graph of Lambda. Additionally, we give criteria for determining when an element of Aut(Q(Lambda)) belongs to this subgroup in terms of the exponent matrix for Lambda.


The automorphism group of a tiled order \(\Lambda\) is calculated. If \(Q(\Lambda)\) denotes the link graph of \(\Lambda\), every automorphism of \(\Lambda\) induces an automorphism of \(Q(\Lambda)\). Since, in general, a tiled order \(\Lambda\) is not fully determined by its link graph, \(\Aut(\Lambda)\) is mapped to a subgroup \({\mathcal O}_\Lambda\) of \(\Aut(Q(\Lambda))\) which may be proper if \(\Lambda\) is not, e.g., a \((0,1)\)-order. The authors show that the kernel of \(\Aut(\Lambda)\twoheadrightarrow{\mathcal O}_\Lambda\) is the group \(\text{Inn}(\Lambda)\) of inner automorphisms, and thus \(\Aut(\Lambda)=\text{Inn}(\Lambda)\rtimes{\mathcal O}_\Lambda\). Their explicit description of \({\mathcal O}_\Lambda\) can be interpreted as follows. There are finitely many representations of \(\Lambda\) by an exponent matrix \(E\) with non-negative entries, and these exponent matrices correspond bijectively to the irreducible representations of \(\Lambda\). The group \({\mathcal O}_\Lambda\) of outer automorphisms consists of exactly those permutations of the rows and columns of \(E\) which lead again to an exponent matrix of \(\Lambda\). In other words, if \({\mathfrak S}_\Lambda\) denotes the lattice of irreducible \(\Lambda\)-representations in a fixed simple module over the ambient matrix algebra of \(\Lambda\), then the outer automorphisms of \(\Lambda\) correspond to symmetries of \({\mathfrak S}_\Lambda\) modulo translations.











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