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The motivation of this paper is to study the natural quiver of an artinian algebra, a new kind of quivers, as a tool independing upon the associated basic algebra. In Li (J Aust Math Soc 83:385–416, 2007), the notion of the natural quiver of an artinian algebra was introduced and then was used to generalize the Gabriel theorem for non-basic artinian algebras splitting over radicals and non-basic finite dimensional algebras with 2-nilpotent radicals via pseudo path algebras and generalized path algebras respectively. In this paper, firstly we consider the relationship between the natural quiver and the ordinary quiver of a finite dimensional algebra. Secondly, the generalized Gabriel theorem is obtained for radical-graded artinian algebras. Moreover, Gabriel-type algebras are introduced to outline those artinian algebras satisfying the generalized Gabriel theorem here and in Li (J Aust Math Soc 83:385–416, 2007). For such algebras, the uniqueness of the related generalized path algebra and quiver holds up to isomorphism in the case when the ideal is admissible. For an artinian algebra, there are two basic algebras, the first is that associated to the algebra itself; the second is that associated to the correspondent generalized path algebra. In the final part, it is shown that for a Gabriel-type artinian algebra, the first basic algebra is a quotient of the second basic algebra. In the end, we give an example of a skew group algebra in which the relation between the natural quiver and the ordinary quiver is discussed.
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Project supported by the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China (No. D7080064) and the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 10871170).
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Li, F., Chen, L. The Natural Quiver of an Artinian Algebra. Algebr Represent Theor 13, 623–636 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10468-009-9163-4
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