%0 Journal Article %T Thick subcategories and virtually Gorenstein algebras %A Apostolos Beligiannis %A Henning Krause %J Mathematics %D 2006 %I arXiv %X An Artin algebra is by definition virtually Gorenstein if the class of modules which are right orthogonal (with respect to Ext^*(-,-)) to all Gorenstein projective modules coincides with the class of modules which are left orthogonal to all Gorenstein injective modules. We provide a new characterization in terms of finitely generated modules. In addition, an example of an algebra is presented which is not virtually Gorenstein. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0608710v1