Viewing finite-dimensional representations through infinite-dimensional ones

DOI10.2140/PJM.1999.187.65MaRDI QIDQ1306243zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Dieter Happel, B. Huisgen-Zimmermann

Publication date 5 October 1999

Published in Pacific Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1407.2327

zbMATH Keywords

contravariantly finite categories\(\mathcal C\)-approximations\(\mathcal C\)-phantomscontravariant finiteness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Homological dimension in associative algebras (16E10) Abelian categories, Grothendieck categories (18E10) Homological dimension (category-theoretic aspects) (18G20)

Abstract: We develop criteria for deciding the contravariant finiteness status of a subcategory $AsubseteqLambdaext-mod$, where $Lambda$ is a finite dimensional algebra. In particular, given a finite dimensional $Lambda$-module $X$, we introduce a certain class of modules -- we call them $A$-phantoms of $X$ -- which indicate whether or not $X$ has a right $A$-approximation: We prove that $X$ fails to have such an approximation if and only if $X$ has infinite-dimensional $A$-phantoms. Moreover, we demonstrate that large phantoms encode a great deal of additional information about $X$ and $A$ and that they are highly accessible, due to the fact that the class of all $A$-phantoms of $X$ is closed under subfactors and direct limits.

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