A Small-Gain Theorem with Applications to Input/Output Systems, Incremental Stability, Detectability, and Interconnections

A general ISS-type small-gain result is presented. It specializes to a small-gain theorem for ISS operators, and it also recovers the classical statement for ISS systems in state-space form. In addition, we highlight applications to incrementally stable systems, detectable systems, and to interconnections of stable systems.Comment: 16 pages, no figure

Semi-stable subcategories for Euclidean quivers

In this paper, we study the semi-stable subcategories of the category of representations of a Euclidean quiver, and the possible intersections of these subcategories. Contrary to the Dynkin case, we find out that the intersection of semi-stable subcategories may not be semi-stable. However, only a finite number of exceptions occur, and we give a description of these subcategories. Moreover, one can attach a simplicial fan in $\mathbb{Q}^n$ to any acyclic quiver $Q$, and this simplicial fan allows one to completely determine the canonical presentation of any element in $\mathbb{Z}^n$. This fan has a nice description in the Dynkin and Euclidean cases: it is described using an arrangement of convex codimension-one subsets of $\mathbb{Q}^n$, each such subset being indexed by a real Schur root or a set of quasi-simple objects. This fan also characterizes when two different stability conditions give rise to the same semi-stable subcategory.Comment: 39 page

Homological dimensions for co-rank one idempotent subalgebras

Let $k$ be an algebraically closed field and $A$ be a (left and right) Noetherian associative $k$-algebra. Assume further that $A$ is either positively graded or semiperfect (this includes the class of finite dimensional $k$-algebras, and $k$-algebras that are finitely generated modules over a Noetherian central Henselian ring). Let $e$ be a primitive idempotent of $A$, which we assume is of degree $0$ if $A$ is positively graded. We consider the idempotent subalgebra $\Gamma = (1-e)A(1-e)$ and $S_e$ the simple right $A$-module $S_e = eA/e{\rm rad}A$, where ${\rm rad}A$ is the Jacobson radical of $A$, or the graded Jacobson radical of $A$ if $A$ is positively graded. In this paper, we relate the homological dimensions of $A$ and $\Gamma$, using the homological properties of $S_e$. First, if $S_e$ has no self-extensions of any degree, then the global dimension of $A$ is finite if and only if that of $\Gamma$ is. On the other hand, if the global dimensions of both $A$ and $\Gamma$ are finite, then $S_e$ cannot have self-extensions of degree greater than one, provided $A/{\rm rad}A$ is finite dimensional.Comment: 24 page