For the Grothendieck group of a split simple linear algebraic group, the twisted γ-filtration provides a useful tool for constructing torsion elements in -rings of twisted flag varieties. In this paper, we construct a non-trivial torsion element in the γ-ring of a complete flag variety twisted by means of a PGO-torsor. This generalizes the construction in the HSpin case previously obtained by Zainoulline.

Let S be a commutative local ring of characteristic p, which is not a field, S* the multiplicative group of S, W a subgroup of S*, G a finite p-group, and $S^{\lambda }G$ a twisted group ring of the group G and of the ring S with a 2-cocycle λ ∈ Z²(G,S*). Denote by $In{d}_m\left(S^{\lambda }G\right)$ the set of isomorphism classes of indecomposable $S^{\lambda }G$-modules of S-rank m. We exhibit rings $S^{\lambda }G$ for which there exists a function $f_{\lambda }:\mathbb{N}\to \mathbb{N}$ such that $f_{\lambda }\left(n\right)\ge n$ and $In{d}_{f_{\lambda }\left(n\right)}\left(S^{\lambda }G\right)$ is an infinite set for every natural n > 1. In special cases $f_{\lambda }\left(\mathbb{N}\right)$ contains every natural number m >...

We prove that for any representation-finite algebra A (in fact, finite locally bounded k-category), the universal covering F: Ã → A is either a Galois covering or an almost Galois covering of integral type, and F admits a degeneration to the standard Galois covering F̅: Ã→ Ã/G, where $G=\Pi \left({\Gamma }_A\right)$ is the fundamental group of ${\Gamma }_A$. It is shown that the class of almost Galois coverings F: R → R’ of integral type, containing the series of examples from our earlier paper [Bol. Soc. Mat. Mexicana 17 (2011)], behaves...