On the vanishing of extensions of modules over reduced enveloping algebras (Q1898145)

The authors study some parallels between the representation theory of modular group algebras and that of finite-dimensional restricted Lie algebras. Let \({\mathfrak g}\) be a finite-dimensional restricted Lie algebra over an algebraically closed field \(K\) of characteristic \(p>0\). Fix a linear function \(\chi\in {\mathfrak g}^*\) and let \(A\) denote the reduced enveloping algebra of \({\mathfrak g}\) associated to \(\chi\). Inspired by [\textit{D. J. Benson} and \textit{J. F. Carlson}, Math. Z. 195, 221-238 (1987; Zbl 0593.20062)], the authors introduce the notion of a \(CRH (\Gamma)\)-complex for a finite-dimensional \(A\)-module \(M\). Given \(\Gamma\), a set of simple \(A\)-modules, a complex \((C_*)\): \[ 0\to C_l\to \cdots\to C_1\to C_0\to 0 \] is said to be a \(CRH (\Gamma)\)-complex of \(M\) if all \(C_i\) are projective \(A\)-modules, \(H_0 (C_*) \cong M\) and \(H_i (C_*)\) is a direct sum of modules in \(\Gamma\). It is proved in the paper that if \(M\) is a module in a block of \(A\) and \(\Gamma\) is the set of all simple modules in the block, then \(M\) admits a \(CRH (\Gamma)\)- complex (Theorem 2.4). Various applications of this result are given. For \(\chi=0\) and most of the restricted Lie algebras, several examples are provided of non- projective \(A\)-modules \(M\) with \(H^* (A, M)=0\).