Published online by Cambridge University Press: 20 November 2018
Let k be an algebraically closed field and A = kQ/I be a basic finite dimensional k-algebra such that Q is a connected quiver without oriented cycles. Assume that A is strongly simply connected, that is, for every convex subcategory B of A the first Hochschild cohomology H1(B, B) vanishes. The algebra A is sincere if it admits an indecomposable module having all simples as composition factors. We study the structure of strongly simply connected sincere algebras of tame representation type. We show that a sincere, tame, strongly connected algebra A which contains a convex subcategory which is either representation-infinite tilted of type Ẽp, p = 6,7,8, or a tubular algebra, is of polynomial growth.