Algebras that satisfy Auslander’s condition on vanishing of cohomology

Abstract

Auslander conjectured that every Artin algebra satisfies a certain condition on vanishing of cohomology of finitely generated modules. The failure of this conjecture—by a 2003 counterexample due to Jorgensen and Şega—motivates the consideration of the class of rings that do satisfy Auslander’s condition. We call them AC rings and show that an AC Artin algebra that is left-Gorenstein is also right-Gorenstein. Furthermore, the Auslander–Reiten Conjecture is proved for AC rings, and Auslander’s G-dimension is shown to be functorial for AC rings that are commutative or have a dualizing complex.