Schurian vector space categories, hereditary algebras and Roiter's norm. (Q875921)

Let \(\mathcal C\) be a vector space category over an arbitrary field \(K\), that is, \(\mathcal C\) is an additive category endowed with a faithful additive functor \(|-|\colon\mathcal C\to K\text{-mod}\), the category of vector spaces over \(K\). Let \(\mathcal{V(C)}\) be the corresponding factor space category defined by \textit{L. A. Nazarova} and \textit{A. V. Roiter} [Mitt. Math. Semin. Gießen 115 (1975; Zbl 0315.16021)] and \textit{C. M. Ringel} [Representation theory I, Proc. Workshop, Ottawa 1979, Lect. Notes Math. 831, 104-136 (1980; Zbl 0444.16019)]. The Roiter norm \(\|\mathcal C\|\) of \(\mathcal C\) is defined to be the infimum of \[ \dim_K\text{End}_{\mathcal C}(C)/\dim_K|C| \] taken over all nonzero objects of \(\mathcal C\), not necessarily indecomposable. The definition generalizes the one due to \textit{L. A. Nazarova} and \textit{A. V. Roiter} [Collect. Sci. Works, Kiev 1983, 19-54 (1983; Zbl 0566.16017) and Representation theory I, Finite dimensional algebras, Proc. 4th Int. Conf., Ottawa/Can. 1984, Lect. Notes Math. 1177, 269-271 (1986; Zbl 0625.08002)]. It is proved that a Schurian vector space category \(\mathcal C\) is representation-finite (that is, there are only finitely many isomorphism classes of indecomposable objects of \(\mathcal{V(C)}\)) if and only if \(\|\mathcal C\|\geq 1/4\) and \(\mathcal C\) has finitely many isomorphism classes of indecomposable objects. This is a generalization of an older result for linear vector space categories. The main result of the paper deals with P-faithful quasilinear vector space categories. The category \(\mathcal C\) is quasilinear if every indecomposable object \(C\) is simple over its endomorphism ring. The concept of P-faithful poset was introduced by \textit{L. A. Nazarova} and \textit{A. V. Roiter} [Ukr. Mat. Zh. 54, No. 6, 808-840 (2002; Zbl 1008.16016)] to clarify the structure of critical posets. The concept is generalized to arbitrary quasilinear \(K\)-vector space categories and P-faithful ones are described in terms of an interesting class of hereditary algebras parameterized by skew-fields and rational numbers.