Projective Representations of Quivers^#

^#Communicated by R. Wisbauer.

In the first part of this article, we describe the projective representations in the category of representations by modules of a quiver which does not contain any cycles and the quiver A _∞ as a subquiver, that is, the so-called rooted quivers. As a consequence of this, we show when the category of representations by modules of a quiver admits projective covers. In the second part, we develop a technique involving matrix computations for the quiver A _∞, which will allow us to characterize the projective representations of A _∞. This will improve some previous results and make more accurate the statement made in Benson (1991). We think this technique can be applied in many other general situations to provide information about the decomposition of a projective module.

Key Words:

• Projective representation
• Representation of a quiver
• Rooted quiver

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification:

• Primary 16G20
• Secondary 16B50

ACKNOWLEDGMENT

The second author was supported by the DGI grant BFM2002-02717.

Notes

^# Communicated by R. Wisbauer.