In the winter of 1999 I gave a series of lectures at Queen’s university about some recent results concerning the Cohen-Macaulay property of invariants of Hopf algebras. Tony Geramita asked me to write up my notes for the Queen’s Papers, and I happily took up his suggestion. Although this article focuses on the proof of one main theorem (Theorem 2.11 on page 12), it has some of the character of ...

A commutative local Cohen-Macaulay ring R of finite Cohen-Macaulay type is known to be an isolated singularity; that is, Spec(R) \ {m} is smooth. This paper proves a non-commutative analogue. Namely, if A is a (non-commutative) graded Artin-Schelter Cohen-Macaulay algebra which is FBN and has finite Cohen-Macaulay type, then the non-commutative projective scheme determined by A is smooth.

It is a well known fact that a supersolvable lattice is ELoshellable. Hence a supersolvable lattice (resp., its Stanley-Reisner ring) is Cohen-Macaulay. We prove that if L is a supersolvable lattice such that all intervals have non-vanishing Mt~bius number, then for an arbitrary element x e L the poser L {x} is also Cohen-Macaulay. Posets with this property are called 2-Cohen-Macaulay posets. I...

s. 1 Let (R,m) be a Noetherian local ring which is a quotient of a Gorenstein local ring. Let M be a finitely generated R-module. In this paper, we study the structure of the canonical module K(RnM) of the idealization RnM via the polynomial type introduced by N. T. Cuong [5]. In particular, we give a characterization for K(RnM) being Cohen-Macaulay and generalized Cohen-Macaulay.

Let R be a local Cohen-Macaulay ring, I an R-ideal and G the associated graded ring of I. We give an estimate for the depth of G when G fails to be Cohen-Macaulay. We assume that I has small reduction number, sufficiently good residual intersection properties, and satisfies local conditions on the depth of some powers. The main theorem unifies and generalizes several known results. We also give...

In this paper, we explore the relation between index of reducibility and Hilbert coefficients in local rings. Consequently, main result study provides a characterization sequentially Cohen-Macaulay ring terms its non-parameter ideals. As corollaries to theorem, obtain characterizations Gorenstein/Cohen-Macaulay Chern

If V is a faithful module for a nite group G over a eld of characteristic p > 0, then the ring of invariants need not be Cohen-Macaulay if p divides the order of G. In this article the cohomology of G is used to study the question of Cohen-Macaulayness of the invariant ring. Let R = S(V) be the polynomial ring on which G acts. Then the main result can be stated as follow: If H r (G; R) 6 = 0 fo...

Let $(R,m)$ be a commutative Noetherian local ring, $M$ a finitely generated $R$-module of dimension $d$, and let $I$ be an ideal of definition for $M$. In this paper, we extend cite[Corollary 10(4)]{P} and also we show that if $M$ is a Cohen-Macaulay $R$-module and $d=2$, then $lambda(frac{widetilde{I^nM}}{Jwidetilde{I^{n-1}M}})$ does not depend on $J$ for all $ngeq 1$, where $J$ is a minimal ...

We give several characterizations for the linearity property for a maximal Cohen-Macaulay module over a local or graded ring, as well as proofs of existence in some new cases. In particular, we prove that the existence of such modules is preserved when taking Segre products, as well as when passing to Veronese subrings in low dimensions. The former result even yields new results on the existenc...

Abstract. Criteria are given in terms of certain Hilbert coefficients for the fiber cone F (I) of an m-primary ideal I in a Cohen-Macaulay local ring (R,m) so that it is Cohen-Macaulay or has depth at least dim(R) − 1. A version of Huneke’s fundamental lemma is proved for fiber cones. Goto’s results concerning Cohen-Macaulay fiber cones of ideals with minimal multiplicity are obtained as conseq...