Algebras with homogeneous module category are tame

Abstract

The celebrated Drozd's theorem asserts that a finite-dimensional basic algebra $\Lambda$ over an algebraically closed field $k$ is either tame or wild, whereas the Crawley-Boevey's theorem states that given a tame algebra $\Lambda$ and a dimension $d$, all but finitely many isomorphism classes of indecomposable $\Lambda$-modules of dimension $d$ are isomorphic to their Auslander-Reiten translations and hence belong to homogeneous tubes. In this paper, we prove the inverse of Crawley-Boevey's theorem, which gives an internal description of tameness in terms of Auslander-Reiten quivers.