Totally compatible structures on the radical of an incidence algebra
Mykola Khrypchenko
TL;DR
The paper classifies totally compatible bilinear structures on the Jacobson radical of the incidence algebra $J(I(X,K))$ for finite posets $X$. It develops a framework based on centroid-valued mutations and annihilator-valued structures, yielding an explicit description of proper tot-comp structures and a complete decomposition of all tot-comp structures via $*_{\\mathcal{C}}$ indexed by $X^3_{<}/\\approx$ classes. A sufficient condition guarantees all tot-comp are proper, while examples show non-proper and annihilator-valued cases, including a sharp result when $l(X)\\le 2$. An open problem remains to characterize posets for which every tot-comp structure on $J(I(X,K))$ is proper, highlighting rich combinatorial-algebraic interplay between the poset geometry and compatible algebraic structures.
Abstract
We describe totally compatible structures on the Jacobson radical of the incidence algebra of a finite poset over a field. We show that such structures are in general non-proper.
