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On the number of terms in the middle of almost split sequences over cycle-finite artin algebras

  • Piotr Malicki EMAIL logo , José Peña and Andrzej Skowroński
From the journal Open Mathematics

Abstract

We prove that the number of terms in the middle of an almost split sequence in the module category of a cycle-finite artin algebra is bounded by 5.

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