A balanced Cohen-Macaulay algebra is a connected algebra A having a balanced dualizing complex ωA[d] in the sense of Yekutieli (1992) for some integer d and some graded A-A bimodule ωA. We study some homological properties of a balanced Cohen-Macaulay algebra. In particular, we will prove the following theorem: Theorem 0.1. Let A be a Noetherian balanced Cohen-Macaulay algebra, and M a nonzero ...

In [11], Haiman proved the remarkable result that the isospectral Hilbert scheme of points in the plane is normal, Cohen-Macaulay and Gorenstein. He also showed that this implies the n! conjecture and the positivity conjecture for the Kostka-Macdonald coefficients. In addition, he conjectured that the isospectral Hilbert scheme over the principal component of Hilb(Cd) is Cohen-Macaulay for any ...

We develop a new approach for establishing the Macaulayness of posets representable as cartesian powers of other posets. This approach is based on a problem of constructing an ideal of maximum rank in a poset. Using the relations between the maximum rank ideal problem and the edge-isoperimetric problem on graphs we demonstrate an application of our approach to specification of all posets with a...

This paper determines when the Krull-Schmidt property holds for all finitely generated modules and for maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over one-dimensional local rings with finite Cohen-Macaulay type. We classify all maximal CohenMacaulay modules over these rings, beginning with the complete rings where the Krull-Schmidt property is known to hold. We are then able to determine when the Krull-Sch...

In the winter of 1999 I gave a series of lectures at Queen’s university about some recent results concerning the Cohen-Macaulay property of invariants of Hopf algebras. Tony Geramita asked me to write up my notes for the Queen’s Papers, and I happily took up his suggestion. Although this article focuses on the proof of one main theorem (Theorem 2.11 on page 12), it has some of the character of ...

For a skew version of graded (A ∞ ) hypersurface singularity A, we study the stable category maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over A. As consequence, see that A has countably infinite Cohen–Macaulay representation type and is not noncommutative isolated singularity.

Let S be a finite alphabet. An injective word over S is a word over S such that each letter in S appears at most once in the word. We study Boolean cell complexes of injective words over S and their commutation classes. This generalizes work by Farmer and by Björner and Wachs on the complex of all injective words. Specifically, for an abstract simplicial complex ∆, we consider the Boolean cell ...

Earlier results expressing multivariate subresultants as ratios of two subdeterminants of the Macaulay matrix are extended to Jouanolou’s resultant matrices. These matrix constructions are generalizations of the classical Macaulay matrices and involve matrices of significantly smaller size. Equivalence of the various subresultant constructions is proved. The resulting subresultant method improv...