%0 Journal Article %T Tilted algebras and short chains of modules %A Alicja Jaworska %A Piotr Malicki %A Andrzej Skowro¨˝ski %J Mathematics %D 2011 %I arXiv %R 10.1007/s00209-012-0993-0 %X We provide an affirmative answer for the question raised almost twenty years ago concerning the characterization of tilted artin algebras by the existence of a sincere finitely generated module which is not the middle of a short chain. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/1112.2960v1