Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 June 2019
The category of Cohen–Macaulay modules of an algebra $B_{k,n}$ is used in Jensen et al. (A categorification of Grassmannian cluster algebras, Proc. Lond. Math. Soc. (3) 113(2) (2016), 185–212) to give an additive categorification of the cluster algebra structure on the homogeneous coordinate ring of the Grassmannian of $k$-planes in $n$-space. In this paper, we find canonical Auslander–Reiten sequences and study the Auslander–Reiten translation periodicity for this category. Furthermore, we give an explicit construction of Cohen–Macaulay modules of arbitrary rank. We then use our results to establish a correspondence between rigid indecomposable modules of rank 2 and real roots of degree 2 for the associated Kac–Moody algebra in the tame cases.