Important connections in representation theory arise from resolving a finite-dimensional algebra by an endomorphism algebra of a generator-cogenerator with finite global dimension; for instance, Auslander’s correspondence, classical Schur–Weyl duality and Soergel’s Struktursatz. Here, the module category of the resolution and the module category of the algebra being resolved are linked via an exact functor known as the Schur functor.
In this paper, we investigate how to measure the quality of the connection between module categories of (projective) Noetherian algebras,
B
B
, and module categories of endomorphism algebras of generator-relative cogenerators over
B
B
which are split quasi-hereditary Noetherian algebras. In particular, we are interested in finding, if it exists, the highest degree
n
n
so that the endomorphism algebra of a generator-cogenerator provides an
n
n
-faithful cover, in the sense of Rouquier, of
B
B
. The degree
n
n
is known as the Hemmer–Nakano dimension of the standard modules.
We prove that, in general, the Hemmer–Nakano dimension of standard modules with respect to a Schur functor from a split highest weight category over a field to the module category of a finite-dimensional algebra
B
B
is bounded above by the number of non-isomorphic simple modules of
B
B
.
We establish methods for reducing computations of Hemmer–Nakano dimensions in the integral setup to computations of Hemmer–Nakano dimensions over finite-dimensional algebras, and vice-versa. In addition, we extend the framework to study Hemmer–Nakano dimensions of arbitrary resolving subcategories. In this setup, we find that the relative dominant dimension over (projective) Noetherian algebras is an important tool in the computation of these degrees, extending the previous work of Fang and Koenig. In particular, this theory allows us to derive results for Schur algebras and the BGG category
O
\mathcal {O}
in the integral setup from the finite-dimensional case. More precisely, we use the relative dominant dimension of Schur algebras to completely determine the Hemmer–Nakano dimension of standard modules with respect to Schur functors between module categories of Schur algebras over regular Noetherian rings and module categories of group algebras of symmetric groups over regular Noetherian rings.
We exhibit several structural properties of deformations of the blocks of the Bernstein-Gelfand-Gelfand category
O
\mathcal {O}
establishing an integral version of Soergel’s Struktursatz. We show that deformations of the combinatorial Soergel’s functor have better homological properties than the classical one.