The face ring of a simplicial complex modulo m generic linear forms is shown to have finite local cohomology if and only if the link of every face of dimension m or more is nonsingular, i.e., has the homology of a wedge of spheres of the expected dimension. This is derived from an enumerative result for local cohomology of face rings modulo generic linear forms, as compared with local cohomolog...

In recent years, two different multigraded variants of Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity have been developed, namely multigraded regularity, defined by the vanishing of multigraded pieces of local cohomology modules, and the resolution regularity vector, defined by the multi-degrees in a minimal free resolution. In this paper, we study the relationship between multigraded regularity and the resolu...

Given a module M over a ring R that has a grading by a semigroup Q, we present a spectral sequence that computes the local cohomology H I(M) at any graded ideal I in terms of Ext modules. We use this method to obtain finiteness results for the local cohomology of graded modules over semigroup rings. In particular we prove that for a semigroup Q whose saturation Q is simplicial, and a finitely g...

This paper primarily concerns Galois cohomology groups associated to Galois representations over a complete local ring R. The underlying Galois module and the corresponding cohomology groups which we consider are discrete R-modules. Under certain hypotheses, we prove that the first cohomology group is an almost divisible Rmodule. We also consider the subgroup of locally trivial elements in the ...