Quantum planes of weight \((1,1,n)\) (Q1972026)

Artin-Schelter regular algebras of global dimension 3 have been completely classified. Much has been written about the associated geometry in the case where \(A\) is a regular algebra generated by elements of degree 1. In this paper, the author continues a study of the geometry of \(\text{Tails }A=\text{GrMod }A/\text{Fdim }A\) when \(A\) is a regular algebra of global dimension 3 that is not generated by elements of degree 1. Here \(\text{GrMod }A\) is the category of graded right \(A\)-modules and \(\text{Fdim }A\) is the full subcategory consisting of direct limits of finite-dimensional modules. This paper starts by sharpening the classification of regular algebras of weight \((1,1,n)\) with \(n>1\). \textit{D. R. Stephenson} [J. Algebra 183, No. 1, 55-73 (1996; Zbl 0868.16027)] proved that a regular algebra \(A\) of weight \((1,1,n)\) is isomorphic to an Ore extension \(A\cong R[z;\sigma,\delta]\) where \(R\) is regular of global dimensional 2, \(\sigma\) is a graded automorphism of \(R\), and \(\delta\) is a graded left \(\sigma\)-derivation on \(R\). In Section 1 of this paper, by direct computation, the author determines all possibilities for \(\sigma\) and \(\delta\) in each case. In Section 3, a point module over \(A\) is defined to be a graded, normalized right \(A\)-module which is 1-critical and has multiplicity at most 1. In Section 5, it is shown that the set of isomorphism classes of point modules over \(A\) has the structure of the graph of an automorphism \(\tau=\tau_A\) of a subscheme \(D_A\subseteq P(1,1,n)\). If \(R\cong k\{x,y\}/(yx-qxy)\) and \(A\cong R[z;\sigma,\delta]\) with \(\sigma\) generic, it is proved that \(D_A\) breaks down into three components: two lines and a nonsingular curve. The automorphism \(\tau\) stabilizes these components. Other possibilities exist for the decomposition of \(D_A\). Some examples are given in Section 5 and 6.