Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Let $Q$
be a finite acyclic quiver, let
$J$
be an ideal of
$kQ$
generated by all arrows in
$Q$, and let
$A$
be a finite-dimensional
$k$
-algebra. The category of all finite-dimensional representations of
$\left( Q,\,{{J}^{2}} \right)$
over
$A$ is denoted by
$\text{rep}\left( Q,\,{{J}^{2}},\,A \right)$
. In this paper, we introduce the category
$\text{exa}\left( Q,{{J}^{2}},A \right),$
which is a subcategory of
$\text{rep}\left( Q,\,{{J}^{2}},\,A \right)$ of all exact representations. The main result of this paper explicitly describes the Gorenstein-projective representations in
$\text{rep}\left( Q,\,{{J}^{2}},\,A \right)$, via the exact representations plus an extra condition. As a corollary,
$A$ is a self-injective algebra if and only if the Gorenstein-projective representations are exactly the exact representations of
$\left( Q,\,{{J}^{2}} \right)$ over
$A$.