Skew group algebras of piecewise hereditary algebras are piecewise hereditary

Abstract: We show that the main results of Happel–Rickard–Schofield (1988) and Happel–Reiten–Smalø (1996) on piecewise hereditary algebras are coherent with the notion of group action on an algebra. Then, we take advantage of this compatibility and show that if is a finite group acting on a piecewise hereditary algebra over an algebraically closed field whose characteristic does not divide the order of , then the resulting skew group algebra is also piecewise hereditary. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]