QUASITILTED EXTENSIONS BY NONDIRECTING MODULES (Q2749044)

Quasitilted algebras were introduced by Happel-Reiten-Smalø in order to give a general approach to tilting theory. In the paper under review the authors study when an algebra of the form \(\Gamma=\left(\begin{smallmatrix} G &0\\ M &\Lambda \end{smallmatrix}\right)\), where \(\Lambda\) is a finite dimensional \(k\)-algebra (\(k\) a field), \(M\) is a nondirecting \(\Lambda\)-\(G\)-bimodule and \(G\subset\text{End}_\Lambda(M)^{op}\), is quasitilted. If this is the case, then \(G=\text{End}_\Lambda(M)^{op}\), and \(G\) is a division algebra. Moreover, if \(M\) is not indecomposable as a \(\Lambda\)-module, then \(M\) is of the form \(M=M_1\oplus P\), where \(M_1\) is indecomposable nondirecting, \(P\) is hereditary projective and the only paths with hooks between indecomposable summands of \(M\) are those starting and ending in \(M_1\). Finally, they show that the double extension of an algebra \(\Lambda\) by the same nondirecting module \(M\) is never quasitilted.