Automorphism Groups of Finite-Dimensional Algebras Acting on Subalgebra Varieties

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Authors Alexander Harris Sistko

Publication date 25 September 2018

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Group actions on varieties or schemes (quotients) (14L30) Units, groups of units (associative rings and algebras) (16U60) Automorphisms and endomorphisms (16W20) Associative rings and algebras arising under various constructions (16S99) Projective and enumerative algebraic geometry (14N99)

Abstract: Let $k$ be an algebraically-closed field, and $B$ a unital, associative $k$-algebra with $n:=di{m}_{k}B<infty$. For each $1lemlen$, the collection of all $m$-dimensional subalgebras of $B$ carries the structure of a projective variety, which we call $operatornameAlgG{r}_m(B)$. The group $operatorname{Aut}_k(B)$ of all $k$-algebra automorphisms of $B$ acts regularly on $operatorname{AlgGr}_m(B)$. In this paper, we study the problem of explicitly describing $operatorname{AlgGr}_m(B)$, and classifying its $operatorname{Aut}_k(B)$-orbits. Inspired by recent results on maximal subalgebras of finite-dimensional algebras, we compute the homogeneous vanishing ideal of $operatorname{AlgGr}_{n-1}(B)$ when $B$ is basic, and explictly describe its irreducible components. We show that in this case, $operatorname{AlgGr}_{n-1}(B)$ is a finite union of $operatorname{Aut}_k(B)$-orbits if $B$ is monomial or its Ext quiver is Schur, but construct a class of examples to show that these conditions are not necessary.

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