Radical embeddings and representation dimension. (Q1826884)

An injective algebra homomorphism \(f\colon B\to A\) between Artin algebras is called a radical embedding if the Jacobson radical of \(A\) is equal to the image of the Jacobson radical of \(B\) under the map \(f\). In the paper under review the authors show that for such a radical embedding if \(A\) is representation-finite, then the representation dimension of \(B\) is at most three. Thus, by a result of Igusa-Todorov, the finitistic dimension of \(B\) is finite. Furthermore, the authors provided a generator-cogenerator for \(B\)-mod whose endomorphism algebra is quasi-hereditary of global dimension three. Their result is applied to showing that biserial algebras have finite finitistic dimension. A generalization of the result on the finitistic dimension can be found in a recent paper of the reviewer [J. Pure Appl. Algebra 193, No. 1-3, 287-305 (2004; Zbl 1067.16016)].