Partial flag varieties and preprojective algebras. (Q931906)

The authors study preprojective algebras of type \(A\), \(D\) and \(E\) (i.e. simply-laced Dynkin type). In particular, they consider full subcategories whose objects are given by the submodules of a fixed injective module over such a preprojective algebra. A module in such a category is said to be rigid if it has no self-extensions (of degree 1), and it is said to be maximal rigid if it has a maximal number of non-isomorphic indecomposable direct summands. It is shown that, via a certain mutation operation, the collection of maximal rigid modules gives rise to a cluster structure on the coordinate ring of a corresponding partial flag variety associated to the semisimple simply-connected complex algebraic group associated to the Dynkin diagram of the preprojective algebra. This implies that all the cluster monomials in this cluster structure lie in the dual semicanonical basis. (See also the related article [\textit{A. B. Buan, O. Iyama, I. Reiten} and \textit{J. Scott}, Cluster structures for 2-Calabi-Yau categories and unipotent groups, preprint, \url{arXiv:math/0701557} (2007)].)