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Hugh Thomas
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Kac's theorem for quiver representations over an arbitrary ground field

Let $Q$ be a quiver without loops (cycles of length 1). Kac proved that if $K$ is algebraically closed, the dimension vectors of indecomposable representations of $Q$ over $K$ are exactly the positive real roots and the imaginary roots; further, there is a single isomorphism class of representations if the root is real, and infinitely many if the root is imaginary.

My question is: what is known if we drop the assumption that $K$ is algebraically closed? For real roots, this was answered by Schofield (The field of definition of a real representation of a quiver $Q$. Proc. AMS 116 (1992), no. 2, 293--295) --- he showed one can drop the assumption and nothing changes.

My go-to textbook for quiver representations over non-algebraically closed ground fields (Deng, Du, Parshall, Wang, "Finite dimensional algebras and quantum groups") in this case only gives the result for algebraically closed fields.

Hugh Thomas
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