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Colloquium February 23

Date: Friday February 23

Time: 16:00 to 17:00

Place: 455 McBryde (Commons Room)

Speaker: Dieter Happel of Technische Uni Chemnitz

Title: Combinatorial aspects of tilting theory

Abstract

Quivers (i.e. directed graphs) and their representations have played a decisive role in modern representation theory. Especially the Theorem of Gabriel describing those quivers which admit only finitely many indecomposable representations (up to isomorphism) was an important step. The result says that the underlying graphs are the Dynkin diagrams which occur in the classification of semisimple Lie algebras. Tilting theory has been used in the past to transfer information from representations of quivers to more general algebras and their modules. I will however indicate in this talk a different aspect of tilting theory, namely how tilting representations can be used to describe the internal structure of the representations. For this we will associate with a quiver a partially ordered set of tilting representations and first determine explicitly the Hasse quiver (quiver of minimal inclusions) of this poset. In a second step we will see what information is carried by this Hasse quiver. Certain graph theoretic invariants yield already a lot of information about the quiver we started with. A more detailed analysis which only will be stated allows to reconstruct the quiver, if we assume that the quiver was connected.


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