{"title":"Krull-Remak-Schmidt decompositions in Hom-finite additive categories","authors":"Amit Shah","doi":"10.1016/j.exmath.2022.12.003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>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 <span><math><mo>Hom</mo></math></span>-finite category is an additive category <span><math><mi>A</mi></math></span> for which there is a commutative unital ring <span><math><mi>k</mi></math></span>, such that each <span><math><mo>Hom</mo></math></span>-set in <span><math><mi>A</mi></math></span> is a finite length <span><math><mi>k</mi></math></span>-module. The aim of this note is to provide a proof that a <span><math><mo>Hom</mo></math></span>-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.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":50458,"journal":{"name":"Expositiones Mathematicae","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.8000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"4","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Expositiones Mathematicae","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0723086922000810","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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 -finite category is an additive category for which there is a commutative unital ring , such that each -set in is a finite length -module. The aim of this note is to provide a proof that a -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.
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