We exhibit a bridge between the theory of cellular categories, used in algebraic topology and homological algebra, and the model-theoretic notion of stable independence. Roughly speaking, we show that the combinatorial cellular categories (those where, in a precise sense, the cellular morphisms are generated by a set) are exactly those that give rise to stable independence notions. We give two applications: on the one hand, we show that the abstract elementary classes of roots of Ext studied by Baldwin–Eklof–Trlifaj are stable and tame. On the other hand, we give a simpler proof (in a special case) that combinatorial categories are closed under 2-limits, a theorem of Makkai and Rosický.

Let F be a field of characteristic zero, and let $UT_2$ be the algebra of $2 \times 2$ upper triangular matrices over F. In a previous paper by Centrone and Yasumura, the authors give a description of the action of Taft’s algebras $H_m$ on $UT_2$ and its $H_m$ -identities. In this paper, we give a complete description of the space of multilinear $H_m$ -identities in the language of Young diagrams through the representation theory of the hyperoctahedral group. We finally prove that the variety of $H_m$ -module algebras generated by $UT_2$ has the Specht property, i.e., every $T^{H_m}$ -ideal containing the $H_m$ -identities of $UT_2$ is finitely based.

We describe all groups that can be generated by two twists along spherical sequences in an enhanced triangulated category. It will be shown that with one exception such a group is isomorphic to an abelian group generated by not more than two elements, the free group on two generators or the braid group of one of the types $A_2$ , $B_2$ and $G_2$ factorised by a central subgroup. The last mentioned subgroup can be nontrivial only if some specific linear relation between length and sphericity holds. The mentioned exception can occur when one has two spherical sequences of length 3 and sphericity 2. In this case the group generated by the corresponding two spherical twists can be isomorphic to the nontrivial central extension of the symmetric group on three elements by the infinite cyclic group. Also we will apply this result to give a presentation of the derived Picard group of selfinjective algebras of the type $D_4$ with torsion 3 by generators and relations.

Given a quiver with potential $(Q,W)$, Kontsevich–Soibelman constructed a cohomological Hall algebra (CoHA) on the critical cohomology of the stack of representations of $(Q,W)$. Special cases of this construction are related to work of Nakajima, Varagnolo, Schiffmann–Vasserot, Maulik–Okounkov, Yang–Zhao, etc. about geometric constructions of Yangians and their representations; indeed, given a quiver Q, there exists an associated pair $(\widetilde{Q}, \widetilde{W})$ whose CoHA is conjecturally the positive half of the Maulik–Okounkov Yangian $Y_{\text {MO}}(\mathfrak {g}_{Q})$.

For a quiver with potential $(Q,W)$, we follow a suggestion of Kontsevich–Soibelman and study a categorification of the above algebra constructed using categories of singularities. Its Grothendieck group is a K-theoretic Hall algebra (KHA) for quivers with potential. We construct representations using framed quivers, and we prove a wall-crossing theorem for KHAs. We expect the KHA for $(\widetilde{Q}, \widetilde{W})$ to recover the positive part of quantum affine algebra $U_{q}(\widehat {\mathfrak {g}_{Q}})$ defined by Okounkov–Smirnov.

Building on the embedding of an n-abelian category $\mathscr {M}$ into an abelian category $\mathcal {A}$ as an n-cluster-tilting subcategory of $\mathcal {A}$ , in this paper, we relate the n-torsion classes of $\mathscr {M}$ with the torsion classes of $\mathcal {A}$ . Indeed, we show that every n-torsion class in $\mathscr {M}$ is given by the intersection of a torsion class in $\mathcal {A}$ with $\mathscr {M}$ . Moreover, we show that every chain of n-torsion classes in the n-abelian category $\mathscr {M}$ induces a Harder–Narasimhan filtration for every object of $\mathscr {M}$ . We use the relation between $\mathscr {M}$ and $\mathcal {A}$ to show that every Harder–Narasimhan filtration induced by a chain of n-torsion classes in $\mathscr {M}$ can be induced by a chain of torsion classes in $\mathcal {A}$ . Furthermore, we show that n-torsion classes are preserved by Galois covering functors, thus we provide a way to systematically construct new (chains of) n-torsion classes.

Recently Ovsienko and Tabachnikov considered extensions of Somos and Gale-Robinson sequences, defined over the algebra of dual numbers. Ovsienko used the same idea to construct so-called shadow sequences derived from other nonlinear recurrence relations exhibiting the Laurent phenomenon, with the original motivation being the hope that these examples should lead to an appropriate notion of a cluster superalgebra, incorporating Grassmann variables. Here, we present various explicit expressions for the shadow of Somos-4 sequences and describe the solution of a general Somos-4 recurrence defined over the $\mathbb{C}$ -algebra of dual numbers from several different viewpoints: analytic formulae in terms of elliptic functions, linear difference equations, and Hankel determinants.

For a Galois extension $K/F$ with $\text {char}(K)\neq 2$ and $\mathrm {Gal}(K/F) \simeq \mathbb {Z}/2\mathbb {Z}\oplus \mathbb {Z}/2\mathbb {Z}$ , we determine the $\mathbb {F}_{2}[\mathrm {Gal}(K/F)]$ -module structure of $K^{\times }/K^{\times 2}$ . Although there are an infinite number of (pairwise nonisomorphic) indecomposable $\mathbb {F}_{2}[\mathbb {Z}/2\mathbb {Z}\oplus \mathbb {Z}/2\mathbb {Z}]$ -modules, our decomposition includes at most nine indecomposable types. This paper marks the first time that the Galois module structure of power classes of a field has been fully determined when the modular representation theory allows for an infinite number of indecomposable types.

The paper follows an operadic approach to provide a bialgebraic description of substitution for Lie–Butcher series. We first show how the well-known bialgebraic description for substitution in Butcher’s B-series can be obtained from the pre-Lie operad. We then apply the same construction to the post-Lie operad to arrive at a bialgebra $\mathcal {Q}$ . By considering a module over the post-Lie operad, we get a cointeraction between $\mathcal {Q}$ and the Hopf algebra $\mathcal {H}_{N}$ that describes composition for Lie–Butcher series. We use this coaction to describe substitution for Lie–Butcher series.

Although there is no natural internal product for hermitian forms over an algebra with involution of the first kind, we describe how to multiply two $\varepsilon $ -hermitian forms to obtain a quadratic form over the base field. This allows to define a commutative graded ring structure by taking together bilinear forms and $\varepsilon $ -hermitian forms, which we call the mixed Witt ring of an algebra with involution. We also describe a less powerful version of this construction for unitary involutions, which still defines a ring, but with a grading over $\mathbb {Z}$ instead of the Klein group.

We first describe a general framework for defining graded rings out of monoidal functors from monoidal categories with strong symmetry properties to categories of modules. We then give a description of such a strongly symmetric category $\mathbf {Br}_h(K,\iota )$ which encodes the usual hermitian Morita theory of algebras with involutions over a field K.

We can therefore apply the general framework to $\mathbf {Br}_h(K,\iota )$ and the Witt group functors to define our mixed Witt rings, and derive their basic properties, including explicit formulas for products of diagonal forms in terms of involution trace forms, explicit computations for the case of quaternion algebras, and reciprocity formulas relative to scalar extensions.

We intend to describe in future articles further properties of those rings, such as a $\lambda $ -ring structure, and relations with the Milnor conjecture and the theory of signatures of hermitian forms.

The finite dual $H^{\circ}$ of an affine commutative-by-finite Hopf algebra H is studied. Such a Hopf algebra H is an extension of an affine commutative Hopf algebra A by a finite dimensional Hopf algebra $\overline{H}$ . The main theorem gives natural conditions under which $H^{\circ}$ decomposes as a crossed or smash product of $\overline{H}^{\ast}$ by the finite dual $A^{\circ}$ of A. This decomposition is then further analysed using the Cartier–Gabriel–Kostant theorem to obtain component Hopf subalgebras of $H^{\circ}$ mapping onto the classical components of $A^{\circ}$ . The detailed consequences for a number of families of examples are then studied.

Let R be a discrete valuation domain with field of fractions Q and maximal ideal generated by $\pi $ . Let $\Lambda $ be an R-order such that $Q\Lambda $ is a separable Q-algebra. Maranda showed that there exists $k\in \mathbb {N}$ such that for all $\Lambda $ -lattices L and M, if $L/L\pi ^k\simeq M/M\pi ^k$ , then $L\simeq M$ . Moreover, if R is complete and L is an indecomposable $\Lambda $ -lattice, then $L/L\pi ^k$ is also indecomposable. We extend Maranda’s theorem to the class of R-reduced R-torsion-free pure-injective $\Lambda $ -modules.

As an application of this extension, we show that if $\Lambda $ is an order over a Dedekind domain R with field of fractions Q such that $Q\Lambda $ is separable, then the lattice of open subsets of the R-torsion-free part of the right Ziegler spectrum of $\Lambda $ is isomorphic to the lattice of open subsets of the R-torsion-free part of the left Ziegler spectrum of $\Lambda $ .

Furthermore, with k as in Maranda’s theorem, we show that if M is R-torsion-free and $H(M)$ is the pure-injective hull of M, then $H(M)/H(M)\pi ^k$ is the pure-injective hull of $M/M\pi ^k$ . We use this result to give a characterization of R-torsion-free pure-injective $\Lambda $ -modules and describe the pure-injective hulls of certain R-torsion-free $\Lambda $ -modules.

Let K be any field of characteristic two and let $U_1$ and $W_1$ be the Lie algebras of the derivations of the algebra of Laurent polynomials $K[t,t^{-1}]$ and of the polynomial ring K[t], respectively. The algebras $U_1$ and $W_1$ are equipped with natural $\mathbb{Z}$ -gradings. In this paper, we provide bases for the graded identities of $U_1$ and $W_1$ , and we prove that they do not admit any finite basis.

For complex simple Lie algebras of types B, C, and D, we provide new explicit formulas for the generators of the commutative subalgebra $\mathfrak z(\hat {\mathfrak g})\subset {{\mathcal {U}}}(t^{-1}\mathfrak g[t^{-1}])$ known as the Feigin–Frenkel centre. These formulas make use of the symmetrisation map as well as of some well-chosen symmetric invariants of $\mathfrak g$. There are some general results on the rôle of the symmetrisation map in the explicit description of the Feigin–Frenkel centre. Our method reduces questions about elements of $\mathfrak z(\hat {\mathfrak g})$ to questions on the structure of the symmetric invariants in a type-free way. As an illustration, we deal with type G$_2$ by hand. One of our technical tools is the map ${\sf m}\!\!: {{\mathcal {S}}}^{k}(\mathfrak g)\to \Lambda ^{2}\mathfrak g \otimes {{\mathcal {S}}}^{k-3}(\mathfrak g)$ introduced here. As the results show, a better understanding of this map will lead to a better understanding of $\mathfrak z(\hat {\mathfrak g})$.

We continue the work started in parts (I) and (II) of this series. In this paper, we classify which continuous quivers of type A are derived equivalent. Next, we define the new ${\mathcal {C}(A_{{\mathbb {R}},S})}$ , which we call weak continuous cluster category. It is a triangulated category, it does not have cluster structure but it has a new weaker notion of “cluster theory.” We show that the original continuous cluster category of [15] is a localization of this new weak continuous cluster category. We define cluster theories to be appropriate groupoids and we show that cluster structures satisfy the conditions for cluster theories. We describe the relationship between different cluster theories: some new and some obtained from cluster structures. The notion of continuous mutation which appears in cluster theories (but not in cluster structures) appears in the next paper [20].

Let X be a finite connected poset and K a field. We study the question, when all Lie automorphisms of the incidence algebra I(X, K) are proper. Without any restriction on the length of X, we find only a sufficient condition involving certain equivalence relation on the set of maximal chains of X. For some classes of posets of length one, such as finite connected crownless posets (i.e., without weak crown subposets), crowns, and ordinal sums of two anti-chains, we give a complete answer.

We introduce and study model-theoretic connected components of rings as an analogue of model-theoretic connected components of definable groups. We develop their basic theory and use them to describe both the definable and classical Bohr compactifications of rings. We then use model-theoretic connected components to explicitly calculate Bohr compactifications of some classical matrix groups, such as the discrete Heisenberg group ${\mathrm {UT}}_3({\mathbb {Z}})$, the continuous Heisenberg group ${\mathrm {UT}}_3({\mathbb {R}})$, and, more generally, groups of upper unitriangular and invertible upper triangular matrices over unital rings.

For a not-necessarily commutative ring $R$ we define an abelian group $W(R;M)$ of Witt vectors with coefficients in an $R$-bimodule $M$. These groups generalize the usual big Witt vectors of commutative rings and we prove that they have analogous formal properties and structure. One main result is that $W(R) := W(R;R)$ is Morita invariant in $R$. For an $R$-linear endomorphism $f$ of a finitely generated projective $R$-module we define a characteristic element $\chi _f \in W(R)$. This element is a non-commutative analogue of the classical characteristic polynomial and we show that it has similar properties. The assignment $f \mapsto \chi _f$ induces an isomorphism between a suitable completion of cyclic $K$-theory $K_0^{\mathrm {cyc}}(R)$ and $W(R)$.

Skew-gentle algebras are a generalisation of the well-known class of gentle algebras with which they share many common properties. In this work, using non-commutative Gröbner basis theory, we show that these algebras are strong Koszul and that the Koszul dual is again skew-gentle. We give a geometric model of their bounded derived categories in terms of polygonal dissections of surfaces with orbifold points, establishing a correspondence between curves in the orbifold and indecomposable objects. Moreover, we show that the orbifold dissections encode homological properties of skew-gentle algebras such as their singularity categories, their Gorenstein dimensions and derived invariants such as the determinant of their q-Cartan matrices.

Let R be a finite ring and let ${\mathrm {zp}}(R)$ denote the nullity degree of R, that is, the probability that the multiplication of two randomly chosen elements of R is zero. We establish the nullity degree of a semisimple ring and find upper and lower bounds for the nullity degree in the general case.

We characterize the generalized Auslander–Reiten duality on the category of finitely presented modules over some certain Hom-finite category. Examples include the category FI of finite sets with injections, and the one VI of finite-dimensional vector spaces with linear injections over a finite field.