We introduce the notion of relative singularity category with respect to any self-orthogonal subcategory ω of an abelian category. We introduce the Frobenius category of ω-Cohen-Macaulay objects, and under some reasonable conditions, we show that the stable category of ω-Cohen-Macaulay objects is triangle-equivalent to the relative singularity category. As applications, we relate the stable cat...

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).

Let I ⊂ R be a graded ideal in the polynomial ring R = K[x1, . . . , xn] where K is a field, and fix a term order <. It has been shown in [17] that the Hilbert functions of the local cohomology modules of R/I are bounded by those of R/ in(I), where in(I) denotes the initial ideal of I with respect to <. In this note we study the question when the local cohomology modules of R/I and R/ in(I) hav...

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...