Multiplicities under contragredient duality #
A label-aligned anti-equivalence preserves finite Krull--Schmidt multiplicities. For module skeletons, the two-sided tau-category identity then rewrites an arrow leaving a noninjective module as an arrow entering its inverse Auslander--Reiten translate. These are the two numerical transports used by the manuscript's negative new-mesh construction.
A label-aligned anti-equivalence preserves the multiplicity of every selected indecomposable in every finitely generated module.
An ambient arrow between selected modules reverses under contragredient duality. The proof compares the dual right almost-split middle with the original left almost-split middle and then uses translation invariance of arrow multiplicities.
Cycle-freeness of nonzero nonisomorphisms is preserved by the label-aligned contragredient skeleton. An opposite arrow is carried back to an original arrow with its direction reversed, so an opposite cycle would give an original cycle.