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Publications and source records attributed to Bernd Ulrich.
We give an explicit formula for the Hilbert Series of an algebra defined by a linearly presented, standard graded, residual intersection of a grade three Gorenstein ideal.
Let $R$ be a formal power series ring over a field, with maximal ideal $\mathfrak m$, and let $I$ be an ideal of $R$ such that $R/I$ is Artinian. We study the iterated socles of $I$, that is the ideals which are defined as the largest ideal $J$ with $J\mathfrak m^s\subset I$ for a fixed positive integer $s$. We are interested in these ideals in connection with the notion of integral dependence of ideals. In this article we show that the iterated socles are integral over $I$, with reduction number one, provided $s \leq \text{o}(I_1(φ_d))-1$, where $\text{o}(I_1(φ_d))$ is the order of the ideal of entries of the last map in a minimal free $R$-resolution of $R/I$. In characteristic zero, we also provide formulas for the generators of iterated socles whenever $s\leq \text{o}(I_1(φ_d))$. This result generalizes previous work of Herzog, who gave formulas for the socle generators of any ${\mathfrak m}$-primary homogeneous ideal $I$ in terms of Jacobian determinants of the entries of the matrices in a minimal homogeneous free $R$-resolution of $R/I$. Applications are given to iterated socles of determinantal ideals with generic height. In particular, we give surprisingly simple formulas for iterated socles of height two ideals in a power series ring in two variables. These generators are suitable determinants obtained from the Hilbert-Burch matrix.
We develop the basic properties of an essentially new closure operation on submodules, the \emph{liftable integral closure} of a submodule, including its relationships with the two prevailing notions of integral closure of submodules. We show that for a quite general class of local rings, every finite length module may be represented as a quotient of the form $T/L$, where $T$ is torsionless and integrally dependent on $L$.
By using Mather-Jacobian multiplier ideals, we first prove a formula on comparing Grauert-Riemenschneider canonical sheaf with canonical sheaf of a variety over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero. Then we turn to study Mather-Jacobian multiplier ideals on algebraic curve, in which case the definition of Mather-Jacobian multiplier ideal can be extended to a ground field of any characteristic. We show that Mather-Jacobian multiplier ideal on curves is essentially the same as an integrally closed ideal. Finally by comparing conductor ideal with Mather-Jacobian multiplier ideal, we give a criterion when an algebraic curve is a locally complete intersection.
We find explicit formulas for the Hilbert series of residual intersections of a scheme in terms of the Hilbert series of its conormal modules. In a previous paper we proved that such formulas should exist. We give applications to the dimension of secant varieties of surfaces and three-folds.
We bound the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity and syzygies of the ideal of the singular set of a plane curve, and more generally of the conductor scheme of certain projectively Gorenstein varieties.
Consider a rational projective curve C of degree d over an algebraically closed field k. There are n homogeneous forms g_1,...,g_n of degree d in B=k[x,y] which parameterize C in a birational, base point free, manner. We study the singularities of C by studying a Hilbert-Burch matrix phi for the row vector [g_1,...,g_n]. In the "General Lemma" we use the generalized row ideals of phi to identify the singular points on C, their multiplicities, the number of branches at each singular point, and the multiplicity of each branch. Let p be a singular point on the parameterized planar curve C which corresponds to a generalized zero of phi. In the "Triple Lemma" we give a matrix phi' whose maximal minors parameterize the closure, in projective 2-space, of the blow-up at p of C in a neighborhood of p. We apply the General Lemma to phi' in order to learn about the singularities of C in the first neighborhood of p. If C has even degree d=2c and the multiplicity of C at p is equal to c, then we apply the Triple Lemma again to learn about the singularities of C in the second neighborhood of p. Consider rational plane curves C of even degree d=2c. We classify curves according to the configuration of multiplicity c singularities on or infinitely near C. There are 7 possible configurations of such singularities. We classify the Hilbert-Burch matrix which corresponds to each configuration. The study of multiplicity c singularities on, or infinitely near, a fixed rational plane curve C of degree 2c is equivalent to the study of the scheme of generalized zeros of the fixed balanced Hilbert-Burch matrix phi for a parameterization of C.
In this note we compare the a-invariant of a homogeneous algebra B to the a-invariant of a subalgebra A. In particular we show that if $A \subset B$ is a finite homogeneous inclusion of standard graded domains over an algebraically closed field with A normal and B of minimal multiplicity then A has minimal multiplicity. In some sense these results are algebraic generalizations of Hurwitz type theorems.
When M is a finitely generated graded module over a standard graded algebra S and I is an ideal of S, it is known from work of Cutkosky, Herzog, Kodiyalam, Römer, Trung and Wang that the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of I^mM has the form dm+e when m >> 0. We give an explicit bound on the m$for which this is true, under the hypotheses that I is generated in a single degree and M/IM has finite length, and we explore the phenomena that occur when these hypotheses are not satisfied. Finally, we prove a regularity bound for a reduced, equidimensional projective scheme of codimension 2 that is similar to the bound in the Eisenbud-Goto conjecture [1984], under the additional hypotheses that the scheme lies on a quadric and has nice singularities.
Several numerical indices that control the normalization of ideals are introduced and some relationships among them are derived.
We relate the annihilators of graded components of the canonical module of a graded Cohen-Macaulay ring to colon ideals of powers of the homogeneous maximal ideal. In particular, we connect them to the core of the maximal ideal. An application of our results characterizes Cayley-Bacharach sets of points in terms of the structure of the core of the maximal ideal of their homogeneous coordinate ring. In particular, we show that a scheme is Cayley-Bacharach if and only if the core is a power of the maximal ideal.
Consider a height two ideal, $I$, which is minimally generated by $m$ homogeneous forms of degree $d$ in the polynomial ring $R=k[x,y]$. Suppose that one column in the homogeneous presenting matrix $\f$ of $I$ has entries of degree $n$ and all of the other entries of $\f$ are linear. We identify an explicit generating set for the ideal $\Cal A$ which defines the Rees algebra $\Cal R=R[It]$; so $\Cal R=S/\Cal A$ for the polynomial ring $S=R[T_1,...,T_m]$. We resolve $\Cal R$ as an $S$-module and $I^s$ as an $R$-module, for all powers $s$. The proof uses the homogeneous coordinate ring, $A=S/H$, of a rational normal scroll, with $H\subseteq \Cal A$. The ideal $\Cal AA$ is isomorphic to the $n^{\text{th}}$ symbolic power of a height one prime ideal $K$ of $A$. The ideal $K^{(n)}$ is generated by monomials. Whenever possible, we study $A/K^{(n)}$ in place of $A/\Cal AA$ because the generators of $K^{(n)}$ are much less complicated then the generators of $\Cal AA$. We obtain a filtration of $K^{(n)}$ in which the factors are polynomial rings, hypersurface rings, or modules resolved by generalized Eagon-Northcott complexes. The generators of $I$ parameterize an algebraic curve $\Cal C$ in projective $m-1$ space. The defining equations of the special fiber ring $\Cal R/(x,y)\Cal R$ yield a solution of the implicitization problem for $\Cal C$.
We first describe a situation in which every graded Betti number in the tail of the resolution of $\frac RJ$ may be read from the socle degrees of $\frac RJ$. Then we apply the above result to the ideals $J$ and $J^{[q]}$; and thereby describe a situation in which the graded Betti numbers in the tail of the resolution of $R/J^{[q]}$ are equal to the graded Betti numbers in the tail of a shift of the resolution of $R/J$.
Let $A$ be the homogeneous coordinate ring of a rational normal scroll. The ring $A$ is equal to the quotient of a polynomial ring $S$ by the ideal generated by the two by two minors of a scroll matrix $ψ$ with two rows and $\ell$ catalecticant blocks. The class group of $A$ is cyclic, and is infinite provided $\ell$ is at least two. One generator of the class group is $[J]$, where $J$ is the ideal of $A$ generated by the entries of the first column of $ψ$. The positive powers of $J$ are well-understood, in the sense that the $n^{\text{th}}$ ordinary power, the $n^{th}$ symmetric power, and the $n^{th}$ symbolic power all coincide and therefore all three $n^{th}$ powers are resolved by a generalized Eagon-Northcott complex. The inverse of $[J]$ in the class group of $A$ is $[K]$, where $K$ is the ideal generated by the entries of the first row of $ψ$. We study the positive powers of $[K]$. We obtain a minimal generating set and a Groebner basis for the preimage in $S$ of the symbolic power $K^{(n)}$. We describe a filtration of $K^{(n)}$ in which all of the factors are Cohen-Macaulay $S$-modules resolved by generalized Eagon-Northcott complexes. We use this filtration to describe the modules in a finely graded resolution of $K^{(n)}$ by free $S$-modules. We calculate the regularity of the graded $S$-module $K^{(n)}$ and we show that the symbolic Rees ring of $K$ is Noetherian.
The j-multiplicity is an invariant that can be defined for any ideal in a Noetherian local ring $(R, m)$. It is equal to the Hilbert-Samuel multiplicity if the ideal is $m$-primary. In this paper we explore the computability of the j-multiplicity, giving another proof for the length formula and the additive formula.
We prove formulas for the core of ideals that apply in arbitrary characteristic.
We study the fibers of a projective morphism and some related algebraic problems. We characterize the analytic spread of a homogeneous ideal through properties of its syzygy matrix. Powers of linearly presented ideals need not be linearly presented, but we identify a weaker linearity property that is preserved under taking powers.
We study the linkage classes of homogeneous ideals in polynomial rings. An ideal is said to be homogeneously licci if it can be linked to a complete intersection using only homogeneous regular sequences at each step. We ask a natural question: if $I$ is homogeneously licci, then can it be linked to a complete intersection by linking using regular sequences of forms of smallest possible degree at each step (we call such ideals minimally homogeneously licci)? In this paper we answer this question in the negative. In particular, for every $n\geq 28$ we construct a set of $n$ points in $\mathbb P^3$ which are homogeneously licci, but not minimally homogeneously licci. Moreover, we prove that one cannot distinguish between the classes of homogeneously licci and non-licci ideals based only on their Hilbert functions, nor distinguish between homogeneously licci and minimally homogeneously licci ideals based solely on the graded Betti numbers. Finally, by taking hypersurface sections, we show that the natural question has a negative answer whenever the height of the ideal is at least three.