Two-arm successors for stable representables #
This file formalizes the local step in Auslander--Reiten's proof of Corollary 3.8. A stable generator carries one incoming irreducible arm that is already zero. In a right almost-split middle term of arity at most two, that arm splits off and leaves at most one nonzero indecomposable complement. The opposite component of the almost-split kernel supplies the killed arm at the next stage.
A nonzero finitely generated module admitting a displayed indecomposable decomposition with at most one occurrence is indecomposable.
The complementary component of a minimal right almost-split map is irreducible once the complement is identified with a chosen indecomposable.
Dually, projecting a minimal left almost-split map to the same indecomposable complement gives the killed irreducible arm for the next stable generator.
A cyclic stable image is on the Auslander--Reiten chain when one irreducible incoming arrow is already killed in the stable quotient.
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A cyclic image of an arbitrary finite functor is on the Auslander--Reiten chain when one irreducible incoming arm is killed by its generating map.
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If the radical of a cyclic stable image is nonzero, the two-arm bound makes the source label of an irreducible incoming arm killed by the generator unique. One killed arm splits from the right almost-split middle; its complement is the nonzero radical-generating arm, so a second killed arm cannot split through that complement.
The two-arm successor step depends only on a cyclic representable image, not on the stable-representable origin of its ambient finite functor.
If nonzero maps into a fixed finite functor can only be generated at nonprojective module labels, the two-arm bound makes every chain-generated cyclic image uniserial.
The local Auslander--Reiten successor step. Under a two-summand bound on right almost-split middles, every nonzero radical stage of a chain generator is another cyclic stable image carrying its next killed arm.
Under the two-arm bound, every nonzero cyclic stable image already on the Auslander--Reiten chain is uniserial.