%0 Journal Article %T A characterization of quiver algebras based on double derivations %A Jorge A. Guccione %A Juan J. Guccione %J Mathematics %D 2008 %I arXiv %X Let k a characteristic zero field. We give a characterization for the finite quiver k-algebras, based on double derivations. More precisely, we prove that if an associative and unitary k-algebra have a family of double derivations satisfying suitable conditions, then it is (canonically isomorphic to) a quiver algebra. This is the non-commutative version of a result of D. Wright. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.1148v1