On the magnitude of a finite dimensional algebra

Authors Joseph Chuang, Tom Leinster, A. D. King

Publication date 21 January 2016

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04281, http://www.emis.de/journals/TAC/volumes/31/3/31-03abs.html

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enriched categories magnitude of a category

Free, projective, and flat modules and ideals in associative algebras (16D40) Simple and semisimple modules, primitive rings and ideals in associative algebras (16D60) Representation theory of associative rings and algebras (16G99) Preadditive, additive categories (18E05) Ext and Tor, generalizations, Künneth formula (category-theoretic aspects) (18G15) Homological algebra in category theory, derived categories and functors (18G99)

Abstract: There is a general notion of the magnitude of an enriched category, defined subject to hypotheses. In topological and geometric contexts, magnitude is already known to be closely related to classical invariants such as Euler characteristic and dimension. Here we establish its significance in an algebraic context. Specifically, in the representation theory of an associative algebra A, a central role is played by the indecomposable projective A-modules, which form a category enriched in vector spaces. We show that the magnitude of that category is a known homological invariant of the algebra: writing chi_A for the Euler form of A and S for the direct sum of the simple A-modules, it is chi_A(S, S).

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