Idempotents in representation rings of quivers

Kinser, Ryan; Schiffler, Ralf

doi:10.2140/ant.2012.6.967

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Idempotents in representation rings of quivers

Ryan Kinser and Ralf Schiffler

Vol. 6 (2012), No. 5, 967–994

DOI: 10.2140/ant.2012.6.967

Abstract

For an acyclic quiver $Q$ , we solve the Clebsch–Gordan problem for the projective representations by computing the multiplicity of a given indecomposable projective in the tensor product of two indecomposable projectives. Motivated by this problem for arbitrary representations, we study idempotents in the representation ring of $Q$ (the free abelian group on the indecomposable representations, with multiplication given by tensor product). We give a general technique for constructing such idempotents and for decomposing the representation ring into a direct product of ideals, utilizing morphisms between quivers and categorical Möbius inversion.

Keywords

quiver, representation ring, tensor product, idempotents

Mathematical Subject Classification 2010

Primary: 16G20

Secondary: 19A22, 06A99

Milestones

Received: 9 September 2010

Revised: 3 September 2011

Accepted: 3 October 2011

Published: 31 July 2012

Authors

Ryan Kinser
Department of Mathematics Northeastern University 360 Huntington Avenue Boston 02213 United States
http://www.math.neu.edu/~rkinser/index.html
Ralf Schiffler
Department of Mathematics University of Connecticut 196 Auditorium Rd Unit 3009 Storrs, CT 06269 United States
http://www.math.uconn.edu/~schiffler/

Vol. 6, No. 5, 2012