We prove that sequentially Cohen-Macaulay rings in positive characteristic, as well as sequentially Cohen-Macaulay Stanley-Reisner rings in any characteristic, have trivial Lyubeznik table. Some other configurations of Lyubeznik tables are also provided depending on the deficiency modules of the ring.

Since its original publication in 1916 under the title ”The algebraic theory of modular systems”, the book by F.S. Macaulay has attracted a lot of scientists with a view towards pure matematics (D. Eisenbud,...) or applications to control theory (U. Oberst,...). However, a carefull examination of the quotations clearly shows that people had only a look at the first three chapters respectively d...

The aim of this paper is to investigate properties of the local cohomology of rings of mixed characteristic that are analogous to Segre products of rings de ned over a eld. The main question is whether the local cohomology can be almost killed in a nite extension (we de ne what this means below). There are two reasons for considering this type of ring. First, there are special properties of the...

We examine some recent work of Phillip Griffith on étale covers and fibered products from the point of view of tight closure theory. While it is known that cyclic covers of Gorenstein rings with rational singularities are Cohen-Macaulay, we show this is not true in general in the absence of the Gorenstein hypothesis. Specifically, we show that the canonical cover of a Q-Gorenstein ring with rat...

We study in detail locally Cohen-Macaulay curves in P 3 which are contained in a double plane 2H , thus completing the classification of curves lying on surfaces of degree two. We describe the irreducible components of the Hilbert schemes Hd,g(2H) of locally Cohen-Macaulay curves in 2H of degree d and arithmetic genus g, and we show that Hd,g(2H) is connected. We also discuss the Rao module of ...

This paper describes a trial of Macaulay and Crerar’s method of mapping a workplace soundscape [1] to assess its fitness as a basis for an extended soundscape mapping method. Twelve participants took part within 14 separate environments, which included academic, commercial and domestic locations. Results were visualized and subsequently collapsed to produce typical responses to typical environm...

We show that the linked Grassmannian scheme, which arises in a functorial compactification of spaces of limit linear series, and in local models of certain Shimura varieties, is Cohen-Macaulay, reduced, and flat. We give an application to spaces of limit linear series.

We show that the associated form, or, equivalently, a Macaulay inverse system, of an Artinian complete intersection of type (d, . . . , d) is polystable. As an application, we obtain an invariant-theoretic variant of the Mather-Yau theorem for homogeneous hypersurface singularities.