nLab preprojective algebra

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Introduced by Gelfand and Ponomarev in study of representations of quivers

  • I. M. Gelfand, V. A. Ponomarev, Model algebras and representations of graphs:, Funkc. Anal. i Priložen. 13 (1979) 1–12. Engl.transl. Func. Anal. Appl. 13 (1979) 157–166.

When a path algebra of the quiver is replaced by a more general finite dimensional hereditary kk-algebra AA, the construction of the algebra structure on a representative system of indecomposable left (right) AA-modules is proposed in

  • D. Baer, W. Geigle, H. Lenzing, The preprojective algebra of a tame hereditary Artin algebra, Commun. Algebra 15 (1987), 425–457 doi

The deformed version is described in

  • W. Crawley-Boevey, Martin P. Holland, Noncommutative deformations of Kleinian singularities, Duke Math. J. 92 (3): 605–635 (1998) doi MR1620538

A construction generalizing deformed preprojective algebra of quivers and assigning to a KK-algebra AA with an element λK ZK 0(A)\lambda\in K\otimes_{\mathbf{Z}}K_0(A) a new algebra π λ(A)\pi^\lambda(A) and a canonical homomorphism Aπ λ(A)A\to \pi^\lambda(A) is described in

  • W. Crawley-Boevey, Preprojective algebras, differential operators and a Conze embedding for deformations of Kleinian singularities, Comment. Math. Helv. 74 (1999) 548-574 doi

Some examples of this construction are the algebra of differential operators on a smooth curve in characteristic zero and the cotangent bundle of Spec(A)Spec(A). Conze’s original construction is for an embedding of a Weyl algebra. Modules over deformed preprojective algebras are in some case closely related to A A_\infty-modules over Weyl algebra.

A point of view on preprojective algebras is a part of a picture in

Other contributions

  • Tristan Bozec, Damien Calaque, Sarah Scherotzke, Calabi-Yau structures for multiplicative preprojective algebras, J. Noncommut. Geom. 17(3) (2023) 783–810 arXiv:2102.12336
  • Travis Schedler, Zeroth Hochschild homology of preprojective algebras over the integers, Adv. Math. 299 (2016) 451–542 doi
  • Daniel Kaplan, Travis Schedler, Multiplicative preprojective algebras are 2-Calabi-Yau, arXiv:1905.12025
  • Christof Geiß, Bernard Leclerc, Jan Schroer, Rigid modules over preprojective algebras, Invent. Math. 165(3):589–632 (2006) doi
  • C. M. Ringel, The preprojective algebra of a quiver. Algebras and modules, II, (Geiranger 1996) 467–480, CMS Conf. Proc. 24
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