Abstract
We characterize the irreducible morphisms of left (right) degree three in terms of configurations of almost split sequences in the category of finitely generated modules over a perfect field. Furthermore, most of the results obtained hold for artin algebras.
Acknowledgments
The authors thankfully acknowledge partial support from CONICET and from Universidad Nacional de Mar del Plata, Argentina. The first author is a researcher from CONICET.
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No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.