Variations of the bridge quiver for domestic string algebras

Abstract

In the computation of some representation-theoretic numerical invariants of domestic string algebras, a finite combinatorial gadget introduced by Schr\"{o}er--the \emph{bridge quiver} whose vertices are (representatives of cyclic permutations of) bands and whose arrows are certain band-free strings--has been used extensively. There is a natural but ill-behaved partial binary operation, $\circ$, on the larger set of \emph{weak bridges} such that bridges are precisely the $\circ$-irreducibles. With the goal of computing hammocks up to isomorphism in a later work we equip an even larger set of \emph{weak arch bridges} with another partial binary operation, $\circ_H$, to obtain a finite category. Each weak arch bridge admits a unique $\circ_H$-factorization into \emph{arch bridges}, i.e., the $\circ_H$-irreducibles.