Higher Nakayama algebras. I: Construction (Q2001601)

Because of their combinatorial nature, Nakayama algebras provide a playground for testing conjectures on finite dimensional algebras and their representations. Their importance comes from the fact that every representation-finite group algebra is stably equivalent to a Nakayama algebra. As representation-finite Artinian algebras, they can be characterized by the property that uniserial modules of a fixed length are invariant under the Auslander-Reiten translate. The indecomposable projective or injective modules over a Nakayama algebra are uniserial, and every Nakayama algebra is a factor algebra of a hereditary Noetherian semiprime ring. In the paper under review, higher Nakayama algebras are defined in the spirit of Iyama's higher Auslander-Reiten theory. For a hereditary algebra \(A\) of type \(\mathbb{A}_n\), the indecomposable \(A\)-modules correspond to intervals in the poset \(\mathbb{A}_n\), which leads to the Auslander algebra of \(A\). The higher Auslander algebras are obtained by iterating this purely combinatorial process, and higher Nakayama algebras of type \(\mathbb{A}\) are constructed as factor algebras with respect to a given Kupisch series, which determines the length of the indecomposable projectives. In the same spirit, higher self-injective Nakayama algebras and those with unbounded Kupisch series are considered.