On the invariant theory for tame tilted algebras. (Q1951002)

A finite dimensional associative \(k\)-algebra \(A\) (the base field \(k\) is assumed to be algebraically closed and have characteristic zero in the paper) is \textit{tilted} if it is the endomorphism algebra of a multiplicity-free tilting module over a connected path algebra of an acyclic quiver. The present paper characterizes tameness of a tilted algebra in terms of the invariant theory related to \(\text{mod}(A,d)\), the affine varieties of \(d\)-dimensional \(A\)-modules for various dimension vectors \(d\). In particular, the following are equivalent for a tilted algebra \(A\): (1) \(A\) is tame; (2) for each generic root \(d\) and each irreducible indecomposable component \(C\) of \(\text{mod}(A,d)\), the field \(k(C)^{\text{GL}(d)}\) of rational invariants on \(C\) is isomorphic to \(k\) or \(k(x)\) (the field of fractions of the univariate polynomial ring); (3) for each generic root \(d\) and each irreducible indecomposable component \(C\) of \(\text{mod}(A,d)\), the moduli space \(M(C)_\theta^{ss}\) of \(\theta\)-semistable \(A\)-modules is either a point or the projective line, where \(\theta\) is an integral weight for which \(C\) contains a \(\theta\)-stable point; (4) \(M(C)_\theta^{ss}\) is smooth for all \(d\), \(C\) and \(\theta\) as in (3). -- Along the way some useful technical reductions are proved about the behaviour of these moduli spaces with respect to tilting functors and the \(\theta\)-stable decomposition.