Wei Hu’s research while affiliated with Beijing Normal University and other places

The rigidity degree of a generator-cogenerator determines the dominant dimension of its endomorphism algebra, and is closely related to a recently introduced homological dimension -- rigidity dimension. In this paper, we give explicit formulae for the rigidity degrees of all indecomposable modules over representation-finite self-injective algebras by developing combinatorial methods from the Euclidean algorithm. As an application, the rigidity dimensions of some algebras of types A and E are given.

Group algebras of symmetric groups and their Hecke algebras are in Schur-Weyl duality with classical and quantised Schur algebras, respectively. Two homological dimensions, the dominant dimension and the global dimension, of the indecomposable summands (blocks) of these Schur algebras S(n, r) and Sq(n,r)$S_q(n,r)$ with n⩾r$n \geqslant r$ are determined explicitly, using a result on derived invariance in Fang, Hu and Koenig (J Reine Angew Math 770:59–85, 2021).

Auslander-Reiten conjecture, which says that an Artin algebra does not have any non-projective generator with vanishing self-extensions in all positive degrees, is shown to be invariant under certain singular equivalences induced by adjoint pairs, which occur often in matrix algebras, recollements and change of rings. Accordingly, several reduction methods are established to study this conjecture.

Unlike Hochschild (co)homology and K -theory, global and dominant dimensions of algebras are far from being invariant under derived equivalences in general. We show that, however, global dimension and dominant dimension are derived invariant when restricting to a class of algebras with anti-automorphisms preserving simples. Such anti-automorphisms exist for all cellular algebras and in particular for many finite-dimensional algebras arising in algebraic Lie theory. Both dimensions then can be characterised intrinsically inside certain derived categories. On the way, a restriction theorem is proved, and used, which says that derived equivalences between algebras with positive ν-dominant dimension always restrict to derived equivalences between their associated self-injective algebras, which under this assumption do exist.

Approximation sequences and derived equivalences occur frequently in the research of mutation of tilting objects in representation theory, algebraic geometry and noncommutative geometry. In this paper, we introduce symmetric approximation sequences in additive categories and weakly n -angulated categories which include (higher) Auslander-Reiten sequences (triangles) and mutation sequences in algebra and geometry, and show that such sequences always give rise to derived equivalences between the quotient rings of endomorphism rings of objects in the sequences modulo some ghost and coghost ideals.