KOSZUL ALGEBRAS, CASTELNUOVO-MUMFORD REGULARITY, AND GENERIC INITIAL IDEALS Giulio Caviglia The University of Kansas Advisor: Craig Huneke August, 2004 The central topics of this dissertation are: Koszul Algebras, bounds for the Castelnuovo Mumford regularity, and methods involving the use of generic changes of coordinates and generic hyperplane restrictions. We give an introduction to Koszul a...

In 1988 Kalai construct a large class of simplicial spheres, called squeezed spheres, and in 1991 presented a conjecture about generic initial ideals of Stanley–Reisner ideals of squeezed spheres. In the present paper this conjecture will be proved. In order to prove Kalai’s conjecture, based on the fact that every squeezed (d−1)-sphere is the boundary of a certain d-ball, called a squeezed d-b...

We analyze the state/trajectory tracking problem using Lyapunov control for finite-dimensional quantum systems when the target state is not a generic density operator and the Lyapunov function is therefore not a Morse function. For ideal systems general stability results are derived for stationary target states based on the linearization method. For the special class of pseudo-pure states a ful...

This is an addendum to the paper of Braun and Fløystad ([BF]) on the bound for the degree of smooth surfaces in P 4 not of general type. (In fact, any statements made here without comment will be found there.) Using their construction and the regularity of curves in P 3 , one may lower the bound a little more. We will prove the following: Theorem. Let S be a smooth surface of degree d in P 4 no...

In the present paper, we characterize all possible Hilbert functions of graded ideals in a polynomial ring whose regularity is smaller than or equal to d, where d is a positive integer. In addition, we prove the following result which is a generalization of Bigatti, Hulett and Pardue’s result: Let p ≥ 0 and d > 0 be integers. If the base field is a field of characteristic 0 and there is a grade...