On selfadjoint functors satisfying polynomial relations.

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Abstract: We study selfadjoint functors acting on categories of finite dimensional modules over finite dimensional algebras with an emphasis on functors satisfying some polynomial relations. Selfadjoint functors satisfying several easy relations, in particular, idempotents and square roots of a sum of identity functors, are classified. We also describe various natural constructions for new actions using external direct sums, external tensor products, Serre subcategories, quotients and centralizer subalgebras.


The paper under review is motivated by recent results of the following kind: Given a field \(\Bbbk\), an associative \(\Bbbk\)-algebra \(\Lambda\) with a fixed generating set \(\{a_i\}\), and a \(\Lambda\)-module \(M\), study the categorifications of \(M\), i.e., the Abelian categories \(\mathcal C\) and exact endofunctors \(\{F_i\}\) of \(\mathcal C\) such that the Grothendieck group \([{\mathcal C}]\) is isomorphic to \(M\) as a vector space and the functor \(F_i\) induces on \([{\mathcal C}]\) the action of \(a_i\) on \(M\). The natural question that motivated the paper is to classify all possible categorifications of all \(\Lambda\)-modules up to some natural equivalence. To make the classification problem more concrete, the authors restrict their considerations to finite dimensional algebras \(A\) and the case when the functors satisfy a polynomial equation. For a positive integer \(k\) and a functor \(F\), define \(kF\) as \(F\oplus\cdots\oplus F\) and interpret \(+\) as \(\oplus\). Then the authors formulate their problem in the following way: Given a finite dimensional algebra \(A\) and two polynomials \(g(x)\) and \(h(x)\) with nonnegative integer coefficients, classify, up to isomorphisms, all selfadjoint endofunctors \(F\) on \(A\)-mod which satisfy \(g(F)\cong h(F)\). Functors satisfying several easy relations, in particular, idempotents and square roots of a sum of identity functors, are classified. The authors also describe various natural constructions for new actions using external direct sums, external tensor products, Serre subcategories, quotients and centralizer subalgebras.



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