2026-07-072026-07-07http://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/61097We prove some basic results about irreducible components of varieties of modules for an arbitrary finitely generated associative algebra. Our work generalizes results of Kac and Schofield on representations of quivers, but our methods are quite different, being based on deformation theory.20 pages; an application to tilted algebras has been addedAlgebraic GeometryCommutative AlgebraRings and Algebras13D10, 14M99, 16D70, 16G20text