Resolutions of mesh algebras: periodicity and Calabi-Yau dimensions

A triangulated category is said to be Calabi-Yau of dimension d if the dth power of its suspension is a Serre functor. We determine which stable categories of self-injective algebras A of finite representation type are Calabi-Yau and compute their Calabi-Yau dimensions. We achieve this by studying the minimal projective resolution of the stable Auslander algebra of A over its enveloping algebra, and use covering theory to reduce to (generalized) preprojective algebras of Dynkin graphs. We also describe how this problem can be approached by realizing the stable categories in question as orbit categories of the bounded derived categories of hereditary algebras.Comment: Final version. To appear in Math.

On the algorithmic construction of classifying spaces and the isomorphism problem for biautomatic groups

We show that the isomorphism problem is solvable in the class of central extensions of word-hyperbolic groups, and that the isomorphism problem for biautomatic groups reduces to that for biautomatic groups with finite centre. We describe an algorithm that, given an arbitrary finite presentation of an automatic group $\Gamma$, will construct explicit finite models for the skeleta of $K(\Gamma,1)$ and hence compute the integral homology and cohomology of $\Gamma$.Comment: 21 pages, 4 figure