Universal deformation rings of modules over Frobenius algebras. (Q1947356)

Let \(\Lambda\) be a self-injective algebra of finite dimension over a field \(k\). The authors show that every finitely generated \(\Lambda\)-module \(V\) whose stable endomorphism ring is isomorphic to \(k\) has a universal deformation ring \(R(\Lambda,V)\) which is a complete local commutative Noetherian \(k\)-algebra with residue field \(k\). If \(\Lambda\) is a Frobenius algebra then \(R(\Lambda,V)\) is isomorphic to \(R(\Lambda,\Omega V)\) where \(\Omega V\) denotes the Heller translate of \(V\). The authors then investigate a particular symmetric algebra \(\Lambda_0\) of dihedral type with three simple modules which is not Morita equivalent to a block of a group algebra. They determine \(R(\Lambda_0,V)\) for every finitely generated \(\Lambda_0\)-module \(V\) whose stable endomorphism ring is isomorphic to \(k\). It turns out that \(R(\Lambda_0,V)\) is always isomorphic to \(k\), \(k[[t]]\) or \(k[[t]]/(t^2)\).