In this paper we will compare the connectivity dimension c(P/I) of an ideal I in a polynomial ring P with that of any initial ideal of I. Generalizing a theorem of Kalkbrener and Sturmfels [18], we prove that c(P/LT≺(I)) ≥ min{c(P/I), dim(P/I)−1} for each monomial order ≺. As a corollary we have that every initial complex of a Cohen-Macaulay ideal is strongly connected. Our approach is based on...

We introduce and investigate the notion of GC -projective modules over (possibly non-noetherian) commutative rings, where C is a semidualizing module. This extends Holm and Jørgensen’s notion of C-Gorenstein projective modules to the non-noetherian setting and generalizes projective and Gorenstein projective modules within this setting. We then study the resulting modules of finite GC-projectiv...

Let R be a commutative noetherian local ring with completion b R. When R has the approximation property, we prove an approximation result for complexes with finitely generated homology. This is used to investigate descent of semidualizing complexes from b R to R. We show that, if R has the approximation property, then there is a bijective correspondence between semidualizing b R-complexes and s...

Let R be a reduced ring that is essentially of finite type over an excellent regular local ring of prime characteristic. Then it is shown that the test ideal of R commutes with localization and, if R is local, with completion, under the additional hypothesis that the tight closure of zero in the injective hull E of the residue field of every local ring of R is equal to the finitistic tight clos...

The main aim of this paper is to find a large class of rings for which there are indecomposable maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules of arbitrary high multiplicity (or rank in the case of domains).

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 this paper we will compare the connectivity dimension c(P/I) of an ideal I in a polynomial ring P with that of any initial ideal of I. Generalizing a theorem of Kalkbrener and Sturmfels [18], we prove that c(P/LT≺(I)) ≥ min{c(P/I), dim(P/I)−1} for each monomial order ≺. As a corollary we have that every initial complex of a Cohen-Macaulay ideal is strongly connected. Our approach is based on...

Let R be the universal deformation ring of a residual representation of a local Galois group. Kisin showed that many loci in MaxSpec(R[1/p]) of interest are Zariski closed, and gave a way to study the generic fiber of the corresponding quotient of R. However, his method gives little information about the quotient ring before inverting p. We give a method for studying this quotient in certain ca...

We study certain Schur functors which preserve singularity categories of rings and we apply them to study the singularity category of triangular matrix rings. In particular, combining these results with Buchweitz–Happel’s theorem, we can describe singularity categories of certain non-Gorenstein rings via the stable category of maximal Cohen–Macaulay modules. Three concrete examples of finitedim...

We prove a theorem unifying three results from combinatorial homological and commutative algebra, characterizing the Koszul property for incidence algebras of posets and affine semigroup rings, and characterizing linear resolutions of squarefree monomial ideals. The characterization in the graded setting is via the Cohen-Macaulay property of certain posets or simplicial complexes, and in the mo...