The brick chain complexity of an artin algebra

Abstract

We consider the category of finitely generated modules over an artin algebra $A$. It is known that any module $M$ has a brick chain filtration. We say that M has brick chain complexity at most $t$ provided $M$ has a brick chain filtration of length at most $t$. The brick chain complexity of A is by definition the supremum of the brick chain complexity of the indecomposable $A$-modules. The aim of this note is to calculate the brick chain complexity for some algebras. We will exhibit algebras with arbitrarily large brick chain complexity.