Krull-Remak-Schmidt decompositions in Hom-finite additive categories
Abstract
An additive category in which each object has a Krull-Remak-Schmidt decomposition -- that is, a finite direct sum decomposition consisting of objects with local endomorphism rings -- is known as a Krull-Schmidt category. A Hom-finite category is an additive category $\mathcal{A}$ for which there is a commutative unital ring $k$, such that each Hom-set in $\mathcal{A}$ is a finite length $k$-module. The aim of this note is to provide a proof that a Hom-finite category is Krull-Schmidt, if and only if it has split idempotents, if and only if each indecomposable object has a local endomorphism ring.
- Publication:
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arXiv e-prints
- Pub Date:
- September 2022
- DOI:
- arXiv:
- arXiv:2209.00337
- Bibcode:
- 2022arXiv220900337S
- Keywords:
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- Mathematics - Representation Theory;
- Mathematics - Category Theory;
- 18E05 (Primary) 16D70;
- 16L30;
- 16U40;
- 18E10 (Secondary)
- E-Print:
- v2: 17 pages, added reference Chen--Ye--Zhang, typos corrected and some minor changes. v1: 17 pages, comments welcome!