For $A$ a gentle algebra, and $X$ and $Y$ string modules, we construct a combinatorial basis for $\operatorname{Hom}(X,\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}Y)$. We use this to describe support $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}$-tilting modules for $A$. We give a combinatorial realization of maps in both directions realizing the bijection between support $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}$-tilting modules and functorially finite torsion classes. We give an explicit basis of $\operatorname{Ext}^{1}(Y,X)$ as short exact sequences. We analyze several constructions given in a more restricted, combinatorial setting by McConville, showing that many but not all of them can be extended to general gentle algebras.

This paper studies the combinatorics of lattice congruences of the weak order on a finite Weyl group $W$, using representation theory of the corresponding preprojective algebra $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F1}$. Natural bijections are constructed between important objects including join-irreducible congruences, join-irreducible (respectively, meet-irreducible) elements of $W$, indecomposable $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}$-rigid (respectively, $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}^{-}$-rigid) modules and layers of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F1}$. The lattice-theoretically natural labelling of the Hasse quiver by join-irreducible elements of $W$ is shown to coincide with the algebraically natural labelling by layers of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F1}$. We show that layers of $\unicode[STIX]{x1D6F1}$ are nothing but bricks (or equivalently stones, or 2-spherical modules). The forcing order on join-irreducible elements of $W$ (arising from the study of lattice congruences) is described algebraically in terms of the doubleton extension order. We give a combinatorial description of indecomposable $\unicode[STIX]{x1D70F}^{-}$-rigid modules for type $A$ and $D$.