Given a local Noetherian ring (R, m) of dimension d > 0 and infinite residue field, we study the invariants (dimension and multiplicity) of the Sally module SJ (I) of any m-primary ideal I with respect to a minimal reduction J. As a by-product we obtain an estimate for the Hilbert coefficients of m that generalizes a bound established by J. Elias and G. Valla in a local Cohen-Macaulay setting. ...

The multiplicity conjecture of Herzog, Huneke, and Srinivasan is verified for the face rings of the following classes of simplicial complexes: matroid complexes, complexes of dimension one and two, and Gorenstein complexes of dimension at most four. The lower bound part of this conjecture is also established for the face rings of all doubly Cohen-Macaulay complexes whose 1-skeleton’s connectivi...

Our main purpose is to give multiple examples for using the available implementations for computing the normalization of an affine ring, computing the minimial generators of the normalization as an algebra over the original ring and integral closures of ideals. Some such examples have been published for Singular, but not for Macaulay 2 and we present both in this paper. We also briefly describe...

Let (R,m) denote an n-dimensional Gorenstein ring. For an ideal I ⊂ R of height c we are interested in the endomorphism ring B = HomR(H c I (R),H c I (R)). It turns out that B is a commutative ring. In the case of (R, m) a regular local ring containing a field B is a Cohen-Macaulay ring. Its properties are related to the highest Lyubeznik number l = dimk Ext d R(k, H c I (R)). In particular R ≃...

We investigate the Cohen-Macaulay property for rings of invariants under multiplicative actions of a finite group G. By definition, these are G-actions on Laurent polynomial algebras k[x 1 , . . . , x ±1 n ] that stabilize the multiplicative group consisting of all monomials in the variables xi. For the most part, we concentrate on the case where the base ring k is Z. Our main result states tha...

Let C ⊂ N be an affine semigroup, and R = K[C] its semigroup ring. This paper is a collection of various results on “C-graded” R-modules M = ⊕ c∈C Mc, especially, monomial ideals of R. For example, we show the following: If R is normal and I ⊂ R is a radicalmonomial ideal (i.e., R/I is a generalization of Stanley-Reisner rings), then the sequentially Cohen-Macaulay property of R/I is a topologi...

Given a commutative noetherian non-positive DG-ring with bounded cohomology which has dualizing DG-module, we study its regular, Gorenstein and Cohen-Macaulay loci. We give sufficient condition for the regular locus to be open, show that is always open. However, both of these loci are often empty: no matter how nice H0(A) is, there examples where A empty. then DG-module contains dense open set....

Introduction 1 0.1. Associated primes 2 0.2. Depth 2 1. Regular local rings and their cohomological properties 4 1.1. Notions of dimension 4 1.2. Dualizing functor 5 1.3. Local rings 6 1.4. Serre’s theorem on regular local rings 6 1.5. Cohomology of D when global dimension is finite 8 2. Depth 8 2.1. Property (Sk) 8 2.2. Serre’s criterion of normality 10 2.3. Cohen-Macaulay modules 11 3. Diviso...

We present short and elementary proofs of two theorems of Huckaba and Marley, while generalizing them at the same time to the case of a module. The theorems concern a characterization of the depth of the associated graded ring of a Cohen-Macaulay module, with respect to a Hilbert filtration, in terms of the Hilbert coefficient e1. As an application, we derive bounds on the higher Hilbert coeffi...

Generalizing the concepts of Stanley–Reisner and affine monoid algebras, one can associate to a rational pointed fan Σ in Rd the Zd-graded toric face ring K[Σ]. Assuming that K[Σ] is Cohen–Macaulay, the main result of this paper is to characterize the situation when its canonical module is isomorphic to a Zd-graded ideal of K[Σ]. From this result several algebraic and combinatorial consequences...