Cellular Noetherian algebras with finite global dimension are split quasi-hereditary

Abstract: We prove that cellular Noetherian algebras with finite global dimension are split quasi-hereditary over a regular commutative Noetherian ring with finite Krull dimension and their quasi-hereditary structure is unique, up to equivalence. In the process, we establish that a split quasi-hereditary algebra is semi-perfect if and only if the ground ring is a local commutative Noetherian ring. We give a formula to determine the global dimension of a split quasi-hereditary algebra over a commutative regular Noetherian ring (with finite Krull dimension) in terms of the ground ring and finite-dimensional split quasi-hereditary algebras. For the general case, we give upper bounds for the finitistic dimension of split quasi-hereditary algebras over arbitrary commutative Noetherian rings. We apply these results to Schur algebras over regular Noetherian rings and to Schur algebras over quotients rings of the integers.