Let F = {Fn} be a multiplicative filtration of a local ring such that the Rees algebra R(F) is Noetherian. We recall Burch’s inequality for F and give an upper bound of the a-invariant of the associated graded ring a(G(F)) using a reduction system of F . Applying those results, we study the symbolic Rees algebra of certain ideals of dimension 2.

We study the relationship between the loop problem of a semigroup, and that of a Rees matrix construction (with or without zero) over the semigroup. This allows us to characterize exactly those completely zero-simple semigroups for which the loop problem is context-free. We also establish some results concerning loop problems for subsemigroups and Rees quotients.

We introduce and study vertex cover algebras of weighted simplicial complexes. These algebras are special classes of symbolic Rees algebras. We show that symbolic Rees algebras of monomial ideals are finitely generated. Dedicated to Winfried Bruns on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday

The Grothendieck-Serre formula for the difference between the Hilbert function and Hilbert polynomial of a graded algebra is generalized for bigraded standard algebras. This is used to get a similar formula for the difference between the Bhattacharya function and Bhattacharya polynomial of two m-primary ideals I and J in a local ring (A, m) in terms of local cohomology modules of Rees algebras ...

Rare earth elements (REEs) are essential for high-techology industrial sectors. This paper presents research on material flow analysis (MFA) applied to REEs in the EU-27. Innovative aspects of this research pertain to (i) considering potential lithospheric stocks of REEs in the EU and (ii) accounting for incomplete and imprecise information in MFA data reconciliation. Results obtained to-date p...

In a previous paper, the author has introduced a number of homomorphisms of an arbitrary semigroup into the translational hull of certain Rees matrix semigroups or orthogonal sums thereof. For regular semigroups, it is proved here that all of these homomorphisms have the property that the image is a densely embedded subsemigroup, i.e., is a densely embedded ideal of its idealizer, and that the ...

These are notes for a lecture given at Ohio University on June 3, 2006. An important topic in commutative algebra is the Rees algebra of an ideal in a commutative ring. The Rees algebra encodes a lot of information about the ideal and corresponds geometrically to a blow-up. One can represent the Rees algebra as the quotient of a polynomial ring by an ideal. This ideal is generated by the defini...

we characterize function spaces of rees matrixsemigroups. then we study these spaces by using the topologicaltensor product technique.