Tame minimal non-polynomial growth simply connected algebras (Q4340469)

The objective of this paper is to introduce and classify a class of tame simply connected algebras which are minimal for being of non-polynomial growth. These are called polynomial growth critical algebras or, briefly, pg-critical (the use of this term deviates from its use by the same authors [in Representation theory of algebras, CMS Conf. Proc. 18, 519-538 (1996; Zbl 0866.16006)]). The authors start by giving a complete classification (by quivers and relations) of the pg-critical algebras. They deduce that pg-critical algebras have global dimension 2, that the opposite algebra of a pg-critical algebra is also pg-critical, and that pg-critical algebras are simply connected (but not necessarily strongly simply connected). Further, they use their classification to identify the strongly simply connected pg-critical algebras and show [using the result of \textit{A. Skowroński}, Compos. Math. 109, No. 1, 99-133 (1997; see the preceding review Zbl 0889.16004)]\ that these coincide with the tame minimal non-polynomial growth strongly simply connected algebras, thus providing a criterion for a strongly simply connected algebra to be of polynomial growth. The authors then show that two pg-critical algebras with the same number of simple modules belong to the same tilting class, and deduce that the Euler form of a pg-critical algebra is positive semidefinite of corank 2. They also determine the Coxeter polynomial for a pg-critical algebra (whose roots are roots of unity). In the final section, they describe the Auslander-Reiten quiver of a pg-critial algebra, with special attention to the non-regular components. In particular, they show that a pg-critical algebra has exactly one preinjective component containing at the same time a projective module and an injective module (as well as infinitely many non-isomorphic indecomposables having both projective and injective dimension equal to two).