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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
In [1], Dowbor, Ringel and Simson consider hereditary artinian rings of finite representation type; it is known that if A is an hereditary artinian algebra of finite representation type, finite-dimensional over a field, then it corresponds to a Dynkin diagram in a natural way; they show that an hereditary artinian ring of finite representation type corresponds to a Coxeter diagram. However, in order to construct an hereditary artinian ring of finite representation type corresponding to a Coxeter diagram that is not Dynkin, they show that it is necessary though not sufficient to find an extension of skew fields such that the left and right dimensions are both finite but are different. No examples of such skew fields were known at the time. In [3], I constructed such extensions, and the main aim of this paper is to extend the methods of that paper to construct an extension of skew fields having all the properties needed to construct an hereditary artinian ring of finite representation type corresponding to the Coxeter diagram I2(5).
