On derived equivalences and homological dimensions

Unlike Hochschild (co)homology and -theory, global and dominant dimensions of algebras are far from being invariant under derived equivalences in general. We show that, however, global dimension and dominant dimension are derived invariant when restricting to a class of algebras with anti-automorphisms preserving simples. Such anti-automorphisms exist for all cellular algebras and in particular for many finite-dimensional algebras arising in algebraic Lie theory. Both dimensions then can be characterised intrinsically inside certain derived categories. On the way, a restriction theorem is proved, and used, which says that derived equivalences between algebras with positive ν-dominant dimension always restrict to derived equivalences between their associated self-injective algebras, which under this assumption do exist.