Layer lengths, torsion theories and the finitistic dimension

DOI10.1007/S10485-011-9268-XMaRDI QIDQ2392098zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francois Huard, Marcelo Lanzilotta, Octavio Mendoza Hernández

Publication date 1 August 2013

Published in Applied Categorical Structures (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.1933

zbMATH Keywords

abelian length-categoryfinitistic dimensionlayer lengthleft Artinian ringtorsion pair

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Torsion theories; radicals on module categories (associative algebraic aspects) (16S90) Torsion theories, radicals (18E40)

Abstract: Let $Lambda$ be an artinian ring. Generalizing the Loewy length, we propose the layer length associated with a torsion theory, which is a new measure for finitely generated $Lambda$-modules.

Review text

Let \(\Lambda\) be a left Artinian ring. The finitistic dimension of \(\Lambda\) is defined as the supremum of the projective dimensions of finitely generated left \(\Lambda\)-modules with finite projective dimension. It was conjectured by H. Bass in the 60s that the finitistic dimension is always finite. In their earlier work in [Bull. Lond. Math. Soc. 41, No. 2, 367--376 (2009; Zbl 1195.16009)], the authors introduced the notion of infinite-layer length and showed that any Artin algebra, having infinite-layer length at most three, has finite finitistic dimension. Motivated by this approach, in this paper the authors develop a more general theory of layer lengths of objects in a length-category \(\mathcal C\) (recall that a category \(\mathcal C\) is a length-category if \(\mathcal C\) is abelian, skeletally small and every object of \(\mathcal C\) has a finite composition series). Such layer lengths generalize the classical Loewy length by replacing the identity functor of \(\mathcal C\) by an arbitrary additive endo-functor of \(\mathcal C\). Using their theory of layer lengths, combined with Igusa-Todorov function, the authors obtain generalizations of the main result of their paper mentioned above, and also a theorem of \textit{Y. Wang} [Commun. Algebra 22, No. 7, 2525--2528 (1994; Zbl 0804.16006)].

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