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Publications and source records attributed to Michael K. Brown.
We give a computational algorithm for computing Ext groups between bounded complexes of coherent sheaves on a projective variety, and we describe an implementation of this algorithm in Macaulay2. In particular, our results yield methods for computing derived global sections of bounded complexes of coherent sheaves and mutations of exceptional collections.
A theorem of Gulliksen states that a local ring is a complete intersection if and only if the Betti numbers of its finitely generated modules grow polynomially. We prove a derived version of Gulliksen's Theorem. More precisely, we prove a structure theorem for dg-algebras whose modules exhibit polynomial Betti growth. As a key ingredient in the proof, we establish the existence and uniqueness of minimal models and acyclic closures of morphisms of dg-algebras in a broader setting than was previously known. We also extend to dg-algebras a theorem of Halperin on the vanishing of deviations of local rings, recovering Gulliksen's Theorem as an immediate consequence.
Given a commutative and graded Gorenstein ring $R$ with associated projective variety $X$, a theorem of Orlov gives fully faithful embeddings from the graded singularity category of $R$ to the derived category of $X$, or vice versa, depending on the degree of the canonical bundle of $X$. We describe algorithms for computing these embeddings that can be implemented in Macaulay2.
We state and prove a realization of King's Conjecture for a category glued from the derived categories of all of the toric varieties arising from a given Cox ring. Our perspective extends ideas of Beilinson and Bondal to all semiprojective toric varieties.
We describe a novel method for computing sheaf cohomology over weighted projective spaces and stacks using exterior algebra and differential module techniques, generalizing an algorithm due to Eisenbud-Fløystad-Schreyer over projective space.
Given a complex affine hypersurface with isolated singularity determined by a homogeneous polynomial, we identify the noncommutative Hodge structure on the periodic cyclic homology of its singularity category with the classical Hodge structure on the primitive cohomology of the associated projective hypersurface. As a consequence, we show that the Hodge conjecture for the projective hypersurface is equivalent to a dg-categorical analogue of the Hodge conjecture for the singularity category.
We generalize Yekutieli-Zhang's noncommutative Serre Duality Theorem to the setting of noncommutative spaces associated to dg-algebras. As an application, we establish some finiteness properties of derived global sections over such noncommutative spaces. Along the way, we generalize Yekutieli's notion of a balanced dualizing complex to the setting of dg-algebras and establish some cases in which they exist.
Buchweitz-Greuel-Schreyer conjectured in 1987 a lower bound on the ranks of matrix factorizations over certain local hypersurface rings. We study a graded version of this conjecture, and we show that it implies a novel conjecture concerning the cohomology of sheaves over non-Fano projective hypersurfaces.
We develop analogues of Green's $N_p$-conditions for subvarieties of weighted projective space, and we prove that such $N_p$-conditions are satisfied for high degree embeddings of curves in weighted projective space. A key technical result links positivity with low degree (virtual) syzygies in wide generality, including cases where normal generation fails.
We study the asymptotic behavior of the ideals of minors in minimal free resolutions over local rings. In particular, we prove that such ideals are eventually 2-periodic over complete intersections and Golod rings. We also establish general results on the stable behavior of ideals of minors in any infinite minimal free resolution. These ideals have intimate connections to trace ideals and cohomology annihilators. Constraints on the stable values attained by the ideals of minors in many situations are obtained, and they can be explicitly computed in certain cases.
We give an overview of a Macaulay2 package for computing with the multigraded BGG correspondence. This software builds on the package BGG due to Abo-Decker-Eisenbud-Schreyer-Smith-Stillman, which concerns the standard graded BGG correspondence. In addition to implementing the multigraded BGG functors, this package includes an implementation of differential modules and their minimal free resolutions, and it contains a method for computing strongly linear strands of multigraded free resolutions.
We describe cohomological conditions that are necessary and sufficient for the existence of balanced dualizing dg-modules, generalizing a theorem of Van den Bergh for balanced dualizing complexes over graded algebras. As a consequence, we show that a dg-algebra satisfying certain finiteness conditions admits a balanced dualizing dg-module if and only if its zeroth cohomology algebra admits a balanced dualizing complex. Additionally, we obtain a host of new examples of dg-algebras whose associated noncommutative spaces satisfy Serre duality.
A landmark theorem of Orlov relates the singularity category of a graded Gorenstein algebra to the derived category of the associated noncommutative projective scheme. We generalize this theorem to the setting of differential graded algebras. As an application, we obtain new cases of the Lattice Conjecture in noncommutative Hodge theory.
Given a smooth projective toric variety $X$ of Picard rank 2, we resolve the diagonal sheaf on $X \times X$ by a linear complex of length $\dim{X}$ consisting of finite direct sums of line bundles. As applications, we prove a new case of a conjecture of Berkesch-Erman-Smith that predicts a version of Hilbert's Syzygy Theorem for virtual resolutions, and we obtain a Horrocks-type splitting criterion for vector bundles over smooth projective toric varieties of Picard rank 2, extending a result of Eisenbud-Erman-Schreyer. We also apply our results to give a new proof, in the case of smooth projective toric varieties of Picard rank 2, of a conjecture of Orlov concerning the Rouquier dimension of derived categories.
We prove that the dévissage property holds for periodic cyclic homology for a local complete intersection embedding into a smooth scheme. As a consequence, we show that the complexified topological Chern character maps for the bounded derived category and singularity category of a local complete intersection are isomorphisms, proving new cases of the Lattice Conjecture in noncommutative Hodge theory.
We give a short, new proof of a recent result of Hanlon-Hicks-Lazarev about toric varieties. As in their work, this leads to a proof of a conjecture of Berkesch-Erman-Smith on virtual resolutions and to a resolution of the diagonal in the simplicial case.
We develop a notion of linear strands for multigraded free resolutions, and we prove a multigraded generalization of Green's Linear Syzygy Theorem.
A foundational principle in the study of modules over standard graded polynomial rings is that geometric positivity conditions imply vanishing of Betti numbers. The main goal of this paper is to determine the extent to which this principle extends to the nonstandard graded case. In this setting, the classical arguments break down, and the results become much more nuanced. We introduce a new notion of Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity and employ exterior algebra techniques to control the shapes of nonstandard graded minimal free resolutions. Our main result reveals a unique feature in the nonstandard graded case: the possible degrees of the syzygies of a graded module in this setting are controlled not only by its regularity, but also by its depth. As an application of our main result, we show that, given a simplicial projective toric variety and a module M over its coordinate ring, the multigraded Betti numbers of M are contained in a particular polytope when M satisfies an appropriate positivity condition.