PBW deformations of Artin–Schelter regular algebras

Abstract

We consider properties and extensions of PBW deformations of Artin–Schelter regular algebras. PBW deformations in global dimension two are classified and the geometry associated to the homogenizations of these algebras is exploited to prove that all simple modules are one-dimensional in the non-PI case. It is shown that this property is maintained under tensor products and certain skew polynomial extensions.