Stable auto-equivalences for local symmetric algebras (Q907330)

The stable or derived equivalence classification of self-injective algebras is increasingly important in the representation theory of algebras. \textit{J. Rickard} [J. Pure Appl. Algebra 61, No. 3, 303--317 (1989; Zbl 0685.16016)] explicitly gave the derived equivalence classification of Brauer tree algebras. \textit{A. Skowroński} [Contemp. Math. 406, 169--238 (2006; Zbl 1129.16013)] described the derived equivalence classes of tame symmetric algebras. On the other hand, identifying the stable equivalence classes of self-injective algebras has been a harder problem, since there is no comparable Morita theory for describing or constructing equivalences of stable module categories. As it is known, there are many examples of stable equivalences between self-injective algebras that actually come from derived equivalences. Indeed, Rickard [loc. cit.] showed that any standard derived equivalence between self-injective algebras induces a stable equivalence of Morita type. In the other direction, motivated by Broué's abelian defect group conjecture, \textit{H. Asashiba} [Algebr. Represent. Theory 6, No. 4, 427--447 (2003; Zbl 1062.16023)] and \textit{J. Rickard} [J. Algebra 257, No. 2, 460--481 (2002; Zbl 1033.20005)] investigated the problem of ``lifting'' a stable equivalence to a derived equivalence. Although it is well known that not every stable equivalence can be lifted to a derived equivalence in this way, (for instance, for self-injective algebras of finite representation type) all stable equivalences are induced by standard derived equivalences (up to natural isomorphism). In fact, the majority of the known examples of stable equivalences that do not lift to derived equivalences arise in modular representation theory: for example, between blocks of group algebras with nonabelian Sylow \(p\)-subgroups having the trivial intersection property, as well as for group algebras of certain \(p\)-groups. In this paper, motivated by the theory of endo-trivial modules for \(p\)-groups, the author introduces spherical stable twists and \(\mathbb{P}^n\) stable twists, and shows that they give non-trivial auto-equivalences of stable module categories for elementary, local symmetric algebras over a field \(k\). These auto-equivalences are modeled after the spherical twists of \textit{P. Seidel} and \textit{R. Thomas} [Duke Math. J. 108, No. 1, 37--108 (2001; Zbl 1092.14025)] and the \(\mathbb{P}^n\)-twists of \textit{D. Huybrechts} and \textit{R. Thomas} [Math. Res. Lett. 13, No. 1, 87--98 (2006; Zbl 1094.14012)], which yield auto-equivalences of the derived category of coherent sheaves on a variety. Finally, the author recovers many of the auto-equivalences corresponding to endo-trivial modules for \(p\)-groups. The author also obtains analogous auto-equivalences for local algebras of dihedral and semi-dihedral type, which are not group algebras.