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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2010 iii Paper 2 4 ii Solution by
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Take the Kronecker quiver, with two arrows . There are no paths of length two, so its path algebra has basis and dimension four.
For each , take a quiver representation with one-dimensional spaces at both vertices and arrow maps . An endomorphism consists of scalars with from the first arrow; the second imposes no further condition. Its endomorphism ring is therefore , which has no nontrivial idempotent. Thus the representation is indecomposable. An isomorphism to the representation again requires , and the second arrow then gives . Because an algebraically closed field is infinite, this gives infinitely many pairwise nonisomorphic indecomposables. Hence
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