Euler roots for directed finite module categories #
This file identifies the inverse-Cartan quadratic form of a module admitting a length-one projective resolution with its self-Euler characteristic. The degree-one self-Ext vanishing supplied by directedness then makes each such indecomposable dimension vector a positive root.
If the first projective differential is monic and Ext¹(X,X) vanishes,
then applying Hom(-,X) to the projective presentation is right exact.
Pairing a module vector with the inverse-Cartan image of a projective vector computes the corresponding Hom dimension.
A length-one projective resolution identifies the inverse-Cartan quadratic form with the alternating Hom dimension of its two projectives.
A selected indecomposable with projective dimension at most one has a positive-root projective-Hom vector.
The endpoint of the literal middle-support Auslander--Reiten sequence is a positive root for the support algebra's inverse-Cartan quadratic form.