A Note on the Representation Type of Pointed Irreducible Coalgebras and Unipotent Algebras

In this paper the representation type of the class of pointed irreducible coalgebras is studied. We refer the reader to [4] for the basic definitions. A coalgebra is of bounded representation type if there is a bound on the dimension of finite dimensional indecomposable comodules. In Section 1, we show that the representation type is dependent upon the size of the space of primitives. Indeed, a pointed irreducible coalgebra is of bounded type if and only if it is finite dimensional and the space of primitives is onedimensional, i.e. if and only if it is a coalgebra spanned by a finite sequence of divided powers.