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Douglas A. Leonard

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Desingularization of function fields

This is a self-contained purely algebraic treatment of desingularization of fields of fractions $\mathbf{L}:=Q(\mathbf{A})$ of $d$-dimensional domains of the form \[\mathbf{A}:=\bar{\mathbf{F}}[\underline{x}]/\langle b(\underline{x})\rangle\] with a purely algebraic objective of uniquely describing $d$-dimensional valuations in terms of $d$ explicit (independent) local parameters and $1$ (dependent) local unit, for arbitrary dimension $d$ and arbitrary characteristic $p$. The desingularization will be given as a rooted tree with nodes labelled by domains $\mathbf{A}_k$ (all with field of fractions $Q(\mathbf{A}_k)=\mathbf{L}$), sets $EQ_k$ and $INEQ_k$ of equality constraints and inequality constraints, and birational change-of-variables maps on $\mathbf{L}$. The approach is based on d-dimensional discrete valuations and local monomial orderings to emphasize formal Laurent series expansions in $d$ independent variables. It is non-standard in its notation and perspective.

math.AC↗

Varieties in $(\mathbf{P}^1(\bar{\mathbf{F}}))^n$ by Elimination and Extension

This paper contains a theory of elimination and extension to compute varieties symbolically, based on using {\em coordinates} from $(\mathbf{P}^1(\bar{\mathbf{F}}))^n$ and disjoint {\em parts} of varieties (defined by both equality and inequality constraints), leading to a recursive algorithm to compute said varieties by extension at the level of {\em parts} of a variety. {\sc Macaulay2} code for this is included along with an example. This is a first step in the author's project of giving a purely algebraic theory of desingularization of function fields, in that that project relies heavily on using this type of coordinates for function field elements and on partitioning a set of valuations into disjoint sets similarly.

math.AC↗

The Qth-power algorithm in characteristic 0

The Qth-power algorithm produces a useful canonical P-module presentation for the integral closures of certain integral extensions of $P:=\mathbf{F}[x_n,...,x_1]$, a polyonomial ring over the finite field $\mathbf{F}:=\mathbf{Z}_q$ of $q$ elements. Here it is shown how to use this for several small primes $q$ to reconstruct similar integral closures over the rationals $\mathbf{Q}$ using the Chinese remainder theorem to piece together presentations in different positive characteristics, and the extended Euclidean algorithm to reconstruct rational fractions to lift these to presentations over $\mathbf{Q}$.

math.AC↗

Integral closure of ideals

The Qth-power algorithm for computing structured global presentations of integral closures of affine domains over finite fields is modified to compute structured presentations of integral closures of ideals in affine domains over finite fields relative to a local monomial ordering. A non-homogeneous version of the standard (homogeneous) Rees algebra is introduced as well.

math.AC↗