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Jan Schröer

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arXiv2026

Generically $τ$-regular irreducible components of module varieties

In the representation theory of finite-dimensional algebras, the study of projective presentations of maximal rank is closely related to the study of generically $τ$-regular irreducible components of varieties of modules over such algebras. We show that a module is $τ$-regular if and only if its minimal projective presentation is of maximal rank. This is a refinement of a theorem by Plamondon. We prove that generic extensions of generically $τ$-regular components by simple projective modules are again generically $τ$-regular. This leads to the classification of all generically $τ$-regular components for triangular algebras. We also show that an algebra is hereditary if and only if all irreducible components of its varieties of modules are generically $τ$-regular. Finally, we discuss when the set of generically $τ$-regular components coincides with the set of generically $τ^-$-regular components.

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arXiv2026

On the additivity of projective presentations of maximal rank

We study projective presentations of finite-dimensional modules over finite-dimensional algebras. We discuss if projective presentations of maximal rank behave additively. More precisely, we ask if the direct sum of copies of a projective presentation of maximal rank is again of maximal rank. The modules which have a projective presentation of maximal rank are exactly the $τ$-regular modules. This class of modules can be seen as a generalization of modules of projective dimension at most one, and of $τ$-rigid modules. The $τ$-regular modules form open subsets of module varieties. Their closures are therefore unions of irreducible components, which are called generically $τ$-regular. We discuss when a $τ$-regular module or a generically $τ$-regular component can be reduced to a module or component of projective dimension at most one, and we show that this is closely related to the question on the additivity of maximal rank presentations.

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arXiv2024

Semicontinuous maps on module varieties

We study semicontinuous maps on varieties of modules over finite-dimensional algebras. We prove that truncated Euler maps are upper or lower semicontinuous. This implies that $g$-vectors and $E$-invariants of modules are upper semicontinuous. We also discuss inequalities of generic values of some upper semicontinuous maps.

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arXiv2021

Schemes of modules over gentle algebras and laminations of surfaces

We study the affine schemes of modules over gentle algebras. We describe the smooth points of these schemes, and we also analyze their irreducible components in detail. Several of our results generalize formerly known results, e.g. by dropping acyclicity, and by incorporating band modules. A special class of gentle algebras are Jacobian algebras arising from triangulations of unpunctured marked surfaces. For these we obtain a bijection between the set of generically tau-reduced decorated irreducible components and the set of laminations of the surface. As an application, we get that the set of bangle functions (defined by Musiker-Schiffler-Williams) in the upper cluster algebra associated with the surface coincides with the set of generic Caldero-Chapoton functions.

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arXiv2020

Generic Caldero-Chapoton functions with coefficients and applications to surface cluster algebras

We realize Derksen-Weyman-Zelevinsky's mutations of representations as densely-defined regular maps on representation spaces, and study the generic values of Caldero-Chapoton functions with coefficients, giving, for instance, a sufficient combinatorial condition for their linear independence. For a quiver with potential $(Q,S)$, we show that if $k$ is a vertex not incident to any oriented 2-cycle, then every generically $τ$-reduced irreducible component $Z$ of any affine variety of (decorated) representations has a dense open subset $U$ on which Derksen-Weyman-Zelevinsky's mutation of representations $μ_k$ can be defined consistently as a regular map to an affine variety of (decorated) representations of the Jacobian algebra of the mutated QP $μ_k(Q,S)$. Our techniques involve only basic linear algebra and elementary algebraic geometry, and do not require to assume Jacobi-finiteness. Thus, the paper yields a new and more general proof of the mutation invariance of generic Caldero-Chapoton functions, generalizing and providing a new natural geometric perspective on results of Derksen-Weyman-Zelevinsky and Plamondon. (For Jacobi-finite non-degenerate quivers with potential, this invariance was shown by Plamondon using the machinery of Ginzburg dg-algebras and Hom-finite generalized cluster categories.) We apply our results, together with results of Mills, Muller and Qin, to prove that for any choice of geometric coefficient systems, not necessarily of full rank, the cluster algebra associated to a possibly punctured surface with at least two marked points on the boundary has the generic Caldero-Chapoton functions as a basis over the Laurent polynomial ring of coefficients.

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arXiv2019

Rigid modules and Schur roots

Let $C$ be a symmetrizable generalized Cartan matrix with symmetrizer $D$ and orientation $Ω$. In previous work we associated an algebra $H$ to this data, such that the locally free $H$-modules behave in many aspects like representations of a hereditary algebra $\tilde{H}$ of the corresponding type. We define a Noetherian algebra $\hat{H}$ over a power series ring, which provides a direct link between the representation theory of $H$ and of $\tilde{H}$. We define and study a reduction and a localization functor relating the module categories of these three types of algebras. These are used to show that there are natural bijections between the sets of isoclasses of tilting modules over $H$, $\hat{H}$ and $\tilde{H}$. We show that the indecomposable rigid locally free modules over $H$ and $\hat{H}$ are parametrized, via their rank vector, by the real Schur roots associated to $(C,Ω)$. Moreover, the left finite bricks of $H$, in the sense of Asai, are parametrized, via their dimension vector, by the real Schur roots associated to the dual datum $(C^T,Ω)$.

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arXiv2019

Quantum cluster algebras and their specializations

We show that in case a cluster algebra coincides with its upper cluster algebra and the cluster algebra admits a grading with finite dimensional homogeneous components, the corresponding Berenstein-Zelevinsky quantum cluster algebra can be viewed as a flat deformation of the classical cluster algebra.

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arXiv2018

Quivers with relations for symmetrizable Cartan matrices IV: Crystal graphs and semicanonical functions

We generalize Lusztig's nilpotent varieties, and Kashiwara and Saito's geometric construction of crystal graphs from the symmetric to the symmetrizable case. We also construct semicanonical functions in the convolution algebras of generalized preprojective algebras. Conjecturally these functions yield semicanonical bases of the enveloping algebras of the positive part of symmetrizable Kac-Moody algebras.

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arXiv2018

Quivers with relations for symmetrizable Cartan matrices V. Caldero-Chapoton formula

We generalize the Caldero-Chapoton formula for cluster algebras of finite type to the skew-symmetrizable case. This is done by replacing representation categories of Dynkin quivers by categories of locally free modules over certain Iwanaga-Gorenstein algebras introduced in Part I. The proof relies on the realization of the positive part of the enveloping algebra of a simple Lie algebra of the same finite type as a convolution algebra of constructible functions on representation varieties of $H$, given in Part III. Along the way, we obtain a new result on the PBW basis of this convolution algebra.

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arXiv2018

Algebras with irreducible module varieties II: Two vertex case

We call a finite-dimensional K-algebra A geometrically irreducible if for all d all connected components of the affine scheme of d-dimensional A-modules are irreducible. We prove that a geometrically irreducible algebra with exactly two simple modules has to be of a very special form, which we describe. Based on this result we prove that every minimal geometrically irreducible algebra without shortcuts in its Gabriel quiver has at most two simple modules.

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arXiv2017

Algebras with irreducible module varieties I

We call a finite-dimensional K-algebra A geometrically irreducible if for all d, all connected components of the affine scheme of d-dimensional A-modules are irreducible. We show that the geometrically irreducible algebras without loops (this includes all algebras of finite global dimension) are the hereditary algebras. We also show that truncated polynomial rings are the only geometrically irreducible local algebras. Finally, we formulate a conjectural classification of all geometrically irreducible algebras.

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arXiv2017

Quivers with relations for symmetrizable Cartan matrices II: Change of symmetrizers

For $k \ge 1$ we consider the $K$-algebra $H(k) := H(C,kD,Ω)$ associated to a symmetrizable Cartan matrix $C$, a symmetrizer $D$, and an orientation $Ω$ of $C$, which was defined in Part 1. We construct and analyse a reduction functor from rep$(H(k))$ to rep$(H(k-1))$. As a consequence we show that the canonical decomposition of rank vectors for $H(k)$ does not depend on $k$, and that the rigid locally free $H(k)$-modules are up to isomorphism in bijection with the rigid locally free $H(k-1)$-modules. Finally, we show that for a rigid locally free $H(k)$-module of a given rank vector the Euler characteristic of the variety of flags of locally free submodules with fixed ranks of the subfactors does not depend on the choice of $k$.

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arXiv2016

Quivers with relations for symmetrizable Cartan matrices I : Foundations

We introduce and study a class of Iwanaga-Gorenstein algebras defined via quivers with relations associated with symmetrizable Cartan matrices. These algebras generalize the path algebras of quivers associated with symmetric Cartan matrices. We also define a corresponding class of generalized preprojective algebras. Without any assumption on the ground field, we obtain new representation-theoretic realizations of all finite root systems.

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arXiv2016

The representation type of Jacobian algebras

We show that the representation type of the Jacobian algebra P(Q,S) associated to a 2-acyclic quiver Q with non-degenerate potential S is invariant under QP-mutations. We prove that, apart from very few exceptions, P(Q,S) is of tame representation type if and only if Q is of finite mutation type. We also show that most quivers Q of finite mutation type admit only one non-degenerate potential up to weak right equivalence. In this case, the isomorphism class of P(Q,S) depends only on Q and not on S.

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arXiv2013

Caldero-Chapoton algebras

Motivated by the representation theory of quivers with potentials introduced by Derksen, Weyman and Zelevinsky and by work of Caldero and Chapoton, who gave explicit formulae for the cluster variables of Dynkin quivers, we associate a Caldero-Chapoton algebra to any (possibly infinite dimensional) basic algebra. By definition, the Caldero-Chapoton algebra is (as a vector space) generated by the Caldero-Chapoton functions of the decorated representations of the basic algebra. The Caldero-Chapoton algebra associated to the Jacobian algebra of a quiver with potential is closely related to the cluster algebra and the upper cluster algebra of the quiver. The set of generic Caldero-Chapoton functions, which conjecturally forms a basis of the Caldero-Chapoton algebra) is parametrized by the strongly reduced components of the varieties of representations of the Jacobian algebra and was introduced by Geiss, Leclerc and Schröer. Plamondon parametrized the strongly reduced components for finite-dimensional basic algebras. We generalize this to arbitrary basic algebras. Furthermore, we prove a decomposition theorem for strongly reduced components. Thanks to the decomposition theorem, all generic Caldero-Chapoton functions can be seen as generalized cluster monomials. As another application, we obtain a new proof for the sign-coherence of g-vectors. Caldero-Chapoton algebras lead to several general conjectures on cluster algebras.

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arXiv2012

Factorial cluster algebras

We show that cluster algebras do not contain non-trivial units and that all cluster variables are irreducible elements. Both statements follow from Fomin and Zelevinsky's Laurent phenomenon. As an application we give a criterion for a cluster algebra to be a factorial algebra. This can be used to construct cluster algebras, which are isomorphic to polynomial rings. We also study various kinds of upper bounds for cluster algebras, and we prove that factorial cluster algebras coincide with their upper bounds.

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