On the order types of hammocks for domestic string algebras

Abstract

In the representation-theoretic study of finite dimensional associative algebras over an algebraically closed field, Brenner introduced certain partially ordered sets known as hammocks to encode factorizations of maps between indecomposable finitely generated modules. In the context of domestic string algebras, Schröer introduced a simpler version of hammocks in his doctoral thesis that are bounded discrete linear orders. In this paper, we characterize the class of order types(=order isomorphism classes) of hammock linear orders for domestic string algebras as the bounded discrete ones amongst the class LOfp of finitely presented linear orders–the smallest class of linear orders containing finite linear orders as well as ω, and that is closed under isomorphisms, order reversal, finite order sums and antilexicographic products. In fact, we provide a multi-step algorithm to compute the order type of any closed interval in the hammock, and prove the correctness of this algorithm. A major step of this algorithm is the construction of a variation, which we call the arch bridge quiver, of a finite combinatorial gadget called the bridge quiver introduced by Schröer. He utilised the graph-theoretic properties of the bridge quiver for the computation of some representation-theoretic numerical invariants of domestic string algebras. The vertices of the bridge quiver are (representatives of cyclic permutations of) bands and its arrows are certain band-free strings. There is a natural but ill-behaved partial binary operation, ◦, on a superset of the set of bridges consisting of weak bridges such that bridges are precisely the ◦-irreducibles. We equip an even larger yet finite set of weak arch bridges with another partial binary operation, ◦H , to obtain a finite category. The binary operation ◦H uses isomorphisms between hammocks and explicitly relies on the description of the domestic string algebra as a bound quiver algebra. Each weak arch bridge admits a unique ◦H -factorization into arch bridges, i.e., the ◦H-irreducibles.