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$K_0$-basis modules with a unique extension related to parking functions
Let $B=B_n$ be the quiver algebra of type $A_n$ (with some orietnation) with $n$ points.
A $B$-module $M$ is a basis of the Grothendieck group $K_0$ if $M$ has $n$ indecomposable direct summands and ...
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An algebra with two multiplications, based on series-parallel diagrams?
Here is a commutative, unital, associative algebra $\mathcal{F}$ with two ways to multiply. The multiplications come from a construction with Boolean operations and series-parallel diagrams. I want ...
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Exterior powers of the Cartan matrix and Dyck paths
(This question can be formulated purely combinatorially in terms of Dyck paths, which is done in the second part of the question. But I am more interested whether this can be explained by some sort of ...
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Finite global dimension via the Cartan determinant
Let $A=T(KQ)$ be the trivial extension algebra of a path algebra of Dynkin type $KQ$.
The indecomposable module of $A$ correspond to the roots of $Q$ (and not just the positive roots as for $KQ$).
Let ...
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Which finite posets are Koszul self-dual?
Let $P$ be a finite connected poset with incidence algebra $A_P$.
For the definition and results on Koszul algebras for incidence algebras, see for example here
Question: Which posets have the ...
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Frobenius algebras associated to posets and coalgebra structures
Let $P$ be a finite poset that we assume for simplicity to be bounded (that is it has a global maximum M and minimum m).
Let k be a field, then the classical incidence algebra $kP$ has $k$-vector ...
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Number of K-generators of an algebra and type $D_n$-parking functions
Let $A$ be a representation-finite quiver algebra.
When $A$ has $n$ simple modules a basic module $M$ with $n$ indecomposable summands $M_i$ is called a K-generator when the $M_i$ generate $K_0(A)$, ...
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Generalising the union-closed sets conjecture from lattice to a larger class of posets
(edit: I decided to simplify the question and only pose it for bounded posets first)
The Union-closed sets conjecture is equivalent for lattices P to:
There exists a join-irreducible element $a$ with ...
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The union-closed sets conjecture for finite dimensional algebras
Say a finite dimensional algebra $A$ satisfies the right UC-condition if there exists an indecomposable projective module $P$ of $A$ such that $\operatorname{injdim}(\operatorname{top}(P))=1$ and $P$ ...
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A homological algebra approach to the Union-closed sets conjecture
I noted a while ago that there is a nice homological formulation using incidence algebra of the Union-closed sets conjecture (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Union-closed_sets_conjecture). It might just ...
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Dyck paths of Dynkin type
(The conjecture is a homological algebra question, but question 2 is a pure combinatorics question given that the conjecture is true)
A Dyck path of length $n$ is a list of positive integers $[c_1,c_2,...
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Frobenius algebras from symmetric polynomials
Let $K$ be a field of characteristic 0 (maybe it works for more general fields) and $K[x_1,...,x_n]$ the polynomial ring in $n$ variables. Let $e_1,e_2,...,e_n$ denote the elementary symmetric ...
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Commutative algebras associated to simple Lie algebras
In Section 2 of the article https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0021869307000385, the authors study the center $Z=Z_Q$ of certain preprojective like algebras associated to the simply ...
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Periodics of Coxeter matrices for truncated Nakayama algebras
For $n \geq 3$ and $r \geq 3$ let $C_{n,r}=(c_{i,j})$ denote the $n \times n$-matrix where $c_{i,j}=1$ for $j=i,\dots,i+r-1$ (we only do this until $i+r-1>n$).
So for example for $n=7$ and $r=3$ we ...
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An enumeration problem for Dyck paths from homological algebra
In their article "On n-Gorenstein rings and Auslander rings of low injective dimension" Fuller and Iwanaga gave a homological characterisation of 2-Gorenstein Nakayama algebras with global ...
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Acyclic extensions of acyclic simplicial complexes
Say an abstract simplicial complex $X$ is acyclic if its reduced integral simplicial homology groups $\tilde{\mathrm{H}}^{\Delta}_p(X)$ vanish for all $p\geq 0$. Is it the case that, for any $n>0$, ...
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Properties of sequences associated to Nakayama algebras
Assume Nakayama algebras are connected and given by quiver and relations. Note that such Nakayama algebras have global dimension at most $2n-2$ in case it is finite and the algebra has $n$ simples.
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Frobenius dimensions of Nakayama algebras
The Frobenius dimension $F(A)$ of an Artin algebra $A$ is given by the dimension of $Hom(D(A),A)$ (see the answer in On nearly Frobenius algebras ).
Question 1: Is it true that $F(A) \geq gldim(A)$ ...
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Global dimension 2 Nakayama algebras , 321-avoiding permutations and Fibonacci combinatorics
A $n$-LNakayama algebra (for $n \geq 2$) is a list $[c_0,c_1,...,c_{n-1}]$ with $c_{n-1}=1$, $c_i \geq 2$ for $i \neq n-1$ and $c_i -1 \leq c_{i+1}$ for all $i$.
They are in bijection with Dyck paths, ...
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Classification of shod Dyck paths
A sequence $[c_0,c_1,...,c_{n-1}]$ with $n \geq 2$ is called a Dyck path in case $c_{n-1}=1$, $c_i \geq 2$ for $i \neq n-1$ and $c_i-1 \leq c_{i+1}$ for each $i$.
For example the Dyck paths for $n=4$ ...
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Permanent of the Coxeter matrix of a distributive lattice
Let $L$ be a finite distributive lattice with $n$ elements. Let $C=(c_{x,y})$ be the $n \times n$ matrix with entry 1 in case $x \leq y$ and 0 else.
The Coxeter matrix of $L$ is defined as the matrix $...
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Combinatorial problem on periodic dyck paths from homological algebra
edit: I added conjecture 2 that looks much more accessible.
Here is the elementary combinatorial translation of the problem (read below for the homological background):
Let $n \geq 2$.
A Nakayama ...
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On a problem for determinants associated to Cartan matrices of certain algebras
This is a continuation of Classification of algebras of finite global dimension via determinants of certain 0-1-matrices but this time with a concrete conjecture and using the simplification suggested ...
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Classification of algebras of finite global dimension via determinants of certain 0-1-matrices
I restrict to the elementary problem that is equivalent to give a classification when Morita-Nakayama algebras have finite global dimension (see the end of this post for some background).
A Morita-...
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Combinatorial inequality for dominant dimension
In the following I present a conjecture on Nakayama algebras that I have for nearly 2 years now. Since I was not able to solve it and it can be stated purely combinatorically, I thought it might be ...
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$n$-fold tensor products of $D(A)$ for finite dimensional algebras
Let $A$ be a finite dimensional quiver algebra over a field $K$ and let $D(-):=Hom_K(-,K)$ denote the natural duality (assume algebras are connected).
Define $\psi_A:=sup \{ n \geq 1 | D(A)^{\otimes ...
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Number of hereditary modules of a hereditary algebra
Let $Q$ always denote a Dynkin quiver.
Given a connected path algebra $A=kQ$ and a module $M$, is there a useful criterion on $M$ when $End_A(M)$ is again a connected quiver algebra?
Call a module ...
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Sum of all projective dimensions of simple modules
Let $X_{n,t}$ be the set of all finite dimensional algebras (we can assume they are given by a connected quiver and admissible relations) that have global dimension equal to $n$ and $t$ simple modules....
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Derived equivalences of Dyck paths
Call two Dyck paths $D_1$ and $D_2$ derived equivalent in case their corresponding Nakayama algebras are derived equivalent (The Dyck path of a Nakayama algebra with a linear quiver is just the top ...
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Conjecture on tilting modules for an Auslander algebra
On page 13 of "Tilting modules for the Auslander algebra of $K(x)/x^n$" the author, Geuenich, suggests that the number ($p_{n,i}$) of isomorphism
classes of modules, occurring as the $i$-th summand of ...
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What are the periodic Dyck paths?
I changed the thread completely so that everything is now elementary linear algebra.
A Dyck path of length $n$ is a list of positive integers $[c_1,c_2,...,c_n]$ with $c_i -1 \leq c_{i+1}$ for all $i$...
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On $Ext_A^2(S,A)$ for algebras $A$
For Nakayama algebras $A$ with a linear quiver and at most 7 points (which are 196 algebras) the following was true:
$max \{ dim(Ext_A^2(S,A)) | S $ simple $\}= max \{ dim(Ext_A^2(X,A)) | X $ ...
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Categorification of monotone maps via tilting modules?
It is well known that for the algebra of $n \times n$-upper triangular matrices over a field the number of tilting modules is equal to the Catalan number $C_n$. This is just the (hereditary) Nakayama ...
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Geometric interpretation of homological quantities in Artinian local Gorenstein algebras
By corollary 3.5. of http://www.ams.org/journals/tran/2012-364-09/S0002-9947-2012-05430-4/S0002-9947-2012-05430-4.pdf the classification of local artinian Gorenstein algebras (all algebras here are ...
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Is the Cartan permanent odd for finite global dimension?
Define the Cartan permanent of a finite dimensional algebra as the permanent of the Cartan matrix.
Is the Cartan permanent of a finite dimensional algebra with finite global dimension always an odd ...
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Ext of a Schur algebra
Let $A=A_n$ be the representation-finite block of a Schur algebra with $n$ simple modules for $n \geq 2$. Quiver and relations of $A$ can be found in 6.1. of https://arxiv.org/pdf/1607.05965.pdf . Let ...
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Number of generalised tilting modules
This question is a modification of Number of tilting modules and was suggested by a comment of Dag Madsen. I wondered about this question too some time ago, but did not do much with it since my ...
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Number of syzygy closed Nakayama algebras
Let $A$ be the algebra of $n \times n$ upper triangular matrices over a field $K$ and $J$ its Jacobson radical. Call an ideal $I$ of $A$ admissible in case $I \subseteq J^2$. Let $X$ be the set of ...
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Closed formula for some dimension
This question has a background from representation theory/homological algebra, but I state everything in elementary terms here:
Call an n-CNak an n-tupel $[c_0,c_1,...,c_{n-1}]$ where $c_0=c_1=...=c_{...
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Special configurations on a circle from a homological algebra problem
Here is the short version of the combinatorial problem:
Given a positive integer $n \geq 2$. Draw a circle with $2n$ points indexed by the numbers from $\mathbb{Z}/ 2n \mathbb{Z}$. We colour the ...
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References for Eilenberg-Zilber shuffle product
Most of the treatments I can find in the literature for the Eilenberg-Zilber shuffle product approach it from the point of view of simplicial sets (including the original Eilenberg-MacLane paper). I ...
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Calculating Mayer-Vietoris efficiently
This is a question whose motivation and framing seem to involve a lot of topology, but which I suspect comes down to some simple and standard combinatorics that's probably recorded in a book somewhere....
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Extending the definition of "pure of dimension n" from simplicial complexes to simplicial sets?
Recall that a (combinatorial) simplicial complex $X$ is said to be $n$-dimensional if it contains at least one face of dimension $n$ and no faces of dimension $n+1$. Further, an $n$-dimensional ...
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Extending Reedy dimension to augmented chain complexes of abelian groups
Recall that a normal continuously-graded finite interval is given by a pair $a=([a],f)$ consisting of:
1.) A finite totally ordered set $[a]=[a_0< \dots < a_n]$
2.) A grading function $f:U[a] \...
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Is there an analogue of the Lefschetz fixed point theorem for discrete dynamical systems?
Background/Motivation
Let $(X, f)$ be a discrete dynamical system. For now, $X$ is just a set and $f$ is just a function $f : X \to X$. Suppose that $f^n$ has a finite number of fixed points for ...
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