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We adapt the theory of ghost maps from derived categories to the setting of commutative rings using Andr\'{e}-Quillen homology. The Frobenius endomorphism is a primary example of a ghost map in this setting. We prove an analogue of the ghost lemma for rings and demonstrate its utility by deducing a characteristic independent generalization of Kunz's theorem and an analogue for complete intersection rings.
In this article a higher order support theory, called the cohomological jump loci, is introduced and studied for dg modules over a Koszul extension of a local dg algebra. The generality of this setting applies to dg modules over local complete intersection rings, exterior algebras and certain group algebras in prime characteristic. This family of varieties generalizes the well-studied support varieties in each of these contexts. We show that cohomological jump loci satisfy several interesting properties, including being closed under (Grothendieck) duality. The main application of this support theory is that over a local ring the homological invariants of Betti degree and complexity are preserved under duality for finitely generated modules having finite complete intersection dimension.