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Jenna Rajchgot

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arXiv2017

New classes of examples satisfying the three matrix analog of Gerstenhaber's theorem

In 1961, Gerstenhaber proved the following theorem: if k is a field and X and Y are commuting dxd matrices with entries in k, then the unital k-algebra generated by these matrices has dimension at most d. The analog of this statement for four or more commuting matrices is false. The three matrix version remains open. We use commutative-algebraic techniques to prove that the three matrix analog of Gerstenhaber's theorem is true for some new classes of examples. In particular, we translate this three commuting matrix statement into an equivalent statement about certain maps between modules, and prove that this commutative-algebraic reformulation is true in special cases. We end with ideas for an inductive approach intended to handle the three matrix analog of Gerstenhaber's theorem more generally.

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arXiv2016

Matrix Schubert varieties and Gaussian conditional independence models

Matrix Schubert varieties are certain varieties in the affine space of square matrices which are determined by specifying rank conditions on submatrices. We study these varieties for generic matrices, symmetric matrices, and upper triangular matrices in view of two applications to algebraic statistics: we observe that special conditional independence models for Gaussian random variables are intersections of matrix Schubert varieties in the symmetric case. Consequently, we obtain a combinatorial primary decomposition algorithm for some conditional independence ideals. We also characterize the vanishing ideals of Gaussian graphical models for generalized Markov chains. In the course of this investigation, we are led to consider three related stratifications, which come from the Schubert stratification of a flag variety. We provide some combinatorial results, including describing the stratifications using the language of rank arrays and enumerating the strata in each case.

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arXiv2015

Lower bound cluster algebras: presentations, Cohen-Macaulayness, and normality

We give an explicit presentation for each lower bound cluster algebra. Using this presentation, we show that each lower bound algebra Grobner degenerates to the Stanley-Reisner scheme of a vertex-decomposable ball or sphere, and is thus Cohen-Macaulay. Finally, we use Stanley-Reisner combinatorics and a result of Knutson-Lam-Speyer to show that all lower bound algebras are normal.

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arXiv2014

Singularities of locally acyclic cluster algebras

We show that locally acyclic cluster algebras have (at worst) canonical singularities. In fact, we prove that locally acyclic cluster algebras of positive characteristic are strongly F-regular. In addition, we show that upper cluster algebras are always Frobenius split by a canonically defined splitting, and that they have a free canonical module of rank one. We also give examples to show that not all upper cluster algebras are F-regular if the local acyclicity is dropped.

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arXiv2013

Type A quiver loci and Schubert varieties

We describe a closed immersion from each representation space of a type A quiver with bipartite (i.e., alternating) orientation to a certain opposite Schubert cell of a partial flag variety. This "bipartite Zelevinsky map" restricts to an isomorphism from each orbit closure to a Schubert variety intersected with the above-mentioned opposite Schubert cell. For type A quivers of arbitrary orientation, we give the same result up to some factors of general linear groups. These identifications allow us to recover results of Bobinski and Zwara; namely we see that orbit closures of type A quivers are normal, Cohen-Macaulay, and have rational singularities. We also see that each representation space of a type A quiver admits a Frobenius splitting for which all of its orbit closures are compatibly Frobenius split.

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arXiv2012

Compatibly split subvarieties of the Hilbert scheme of points in the plane

Let k be an algebraically closed field of characteristic p>2. By a result of Kumar and Thomsen, the standard Frobenius splitting of the affine plane induces a Frobenius splitting of the Hilbert scheme of n points in the plane. In this thesis, we investigate the question, "what is the stratification of the Hilbert scheme of points in the plane by all compatibly Frobenius split subvarieties?" We provide the answer to this question when n is at most 4 and we give a conjectural answer when n=5. We prove that this conjectural answer is correct up to the possible inclusion of one particular one-dimensional subvariety of the Hilbert scheme of 5 points, and we show that this particular one-dimensional subvariety is not compatibly split for at least those primes p between 3 and 23. Next, we restrict the splitting of the Hilbert scheme of n points in the plane (now for arbitrary n) to the affine open patch U_ and describe all compatibly split subvarieties of this patch and their defining ideals. We find degenerations of these subvarieties to Stanley-Reisner schemes, explicitly describe the associated simplicial complexes, and use these complexes to prove that certain compatibly split subvarieties of U_ are Cohen-Macaulay.

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