Image-extension-closed subcategories of module categories of hereditary algebras (Q6038530)

Let \(\Lambda\) be an artin \(R\)-algebra over a commutative artinian ring \(R\). Subcategories closed under images were studied by Auslander-Smalø in the context of functorially finite subcategories, while subcategories closed under extensions are common in the representation theory of algebras since they can be regarded as exact categories. It is thus natural to consider the class of image-extension-closed (IE-closed) subcategories, which are closed under taking images and extensions; it is a large class including all torsion classes, torsion-free classes, wide subcategories, and ICE-closed subcategories. A subcategory of \(\bmod\Lambda\) is IE-closed if and only if it is an intersection of some torsion class and torsion-free class. The present authors study IE-closed subcategories of a module category. They investigate the relation between IE-closed subcategories and torsion pairs, and characterize \(\tau\)-tilting finite algebras using IE-closed subcategories. For the hereditary case, they show that IE-closed subcategories can be classified by twin rigid modules, pairs of rigid modules satisfying some homological conditions. They also introduce mutation of twin rigid modules analogously to tilting modules, which gives a way to calculate all twin rigid modules for the representation-finite case.