Covering functors without groups. (Q837029)

The authors define and investigate balanced covering functors that are a generalisation of Galois covering functors. The properties of balanced covering functors are given. One of the main results of the paper is the following Theorem. Let \(A\), \(B\) be locally bounded \(K\)-categories, where \(K\) is an algebraically closed field and let \(F\colon A\to B\) be a covering functor. (a) If \(F\) is induced from a map \(f\colon(Q,I)\to(Q',I')\) of quivers with relations, where \(A=KQ/I\) and \(B=KQ'/I'\), then \(B\) is locally representation-finite if and only if so is \(A\). (b) If \(F\) is balanced and \(B\) is tame, then \(A\) is tame.