Using the Frobenius map, we introduce a new invariant for a pair $(R,\a)$ of a ring $R$ and an ideal $\a \subset R$, which we call the F-pure threshold $\mathrm{c}(\a)$ of $\a$, and study its properties. We see that the F-pure threshold characterizes several ring theoretic properties. By virtue of Hara and Yoshida's result, the F-pure threshold $\mathrm{c}(\a)$ in characteristic zero corresponds to the log canonical threshold $\mathrm{lc}(\a)$ which is an important invariant in birational geometry. Using the F-pure threshold, we prove some ring theoretic properties of three-dimensional terminal singularities of characteristic zero. Also, in fixed prime characteristic, we establish several properties of F-pure threshold similar to those of the log canonical threshold with quite simple proofs.
Blickle, Mustaţă and Smith proposed two conjectures on the limits of $F$-pure thresholds. One conjecture asks whether or not the limit of a sequence of $F$-pure thresholds of principal ideals on regular local rings of fixed dimension can be written as an $F$-pure threshold in lower dimension. Another conjecture predicts that any $F$-pure threshold of a formal power series can be written as the $F$-pure threshold of a polynomial. In this paper, we prove that the first conjecture has a counterexample but a weaker statement still holds. We also give a partial affirmative answer to the second conj…
The F-pure threshold is a positive characteristic numerical invariant, analogous to the log canonical threshold in characteristic zero. We compute the F-pure threshold of the affine cone over a Calabi-Yau hypersurface, and relate it to the order of vanishing of the Hasse invariant on the versal deformation space of the hypersurface.
In this article, we investigate F-pure thresholds of polynomials that are homogeneous under some N-grading, and have an isolated singularity at the origin. We characterize these invariants in terms of the base p expansion of the corresponding log canonical threshold. As an application, we are able to make precise some bounds on the difference between F-pure and log canonical thresholds established by Mustaţă and the fourth author. We also examine the set of primes for which the F-pure and log canonical threshold of a polynomial must differ. Moreover, we obtain results in special cases on the A…
We provide a family of examples where the $F$-pure threshold and the log canonical threshold of a polynomial are different, but where $p$ does not divide the denominator of the $F$-pure threshold (compare with an example of \mustata-Takagi-Watanabe). We then study the $F$-signature function in the case where either the $F$-pure threshold and log canonical threshold coincide or where $p$ does not divide the denominator of the $F$-pure threshold. We show that the $F$-signature function behaves similarly in those two cases. Finally, we include an appendix which shows that the test ideal can still…
We present a new relation between an invariant of singularities in characteristic zero (the log canonical threshold) and an invariant of singularities defined via the Frobenius morphism in positive characteristic (the F-pure threshold). We show that the set of limit points of sequences of the form (c_p), where c_p is the F-pure threshold of an ideal on an n-dimensional smooth variety in characteristic p, coincides with the set of log canonical thresholds of ideals on n-dimensional smooth varieties in characteristic zero. We prove this by combining results of Hara and Yoshida with non-standard …
In this note, we use estimates given in the recent preprint [Her11b]to deduce a formula for the F-pure threshold of a binomial hypersurface over a field of prime characteristic. These formulas are given in terms of the associated splitting polytope, and remain valid over any characteristic.
In this paper, we prove that the set of all $F$-pure thresholds on a fixed germ of a strongly $F$-regular pair satisfies the ascending chain condition. As a corollary, we verify the ascending chain condition for the set of all $F$-pure thresholds on smooth varieties or, more generally, on varieties with tame quotient singularities, which is an affirmative answer to a conjecture given by Blickle, Mustaţǎ and Smith.
We find a formula, in terms of n, d and p, for the value of the F-pure threshold for the generic homogeneous polynomial of degree d in n variables over an algebraically closed field of characteristic p. We also show that, in every characteristic p and for all d (greater than 3) not divisible by p, there always exist reduced polynomials of degree d whose F-pure threshold is a truncation of the base p expansion of 2/d at some place; in particular, there always exist reduced polynomials whose F-pure threshold is strictly less than 2/d. We provide an example to resolve, negatively, a question prop…
In this note, we consider a corollary of the ACC conjecture for F-pure thresholds. Specifically, we show that the F-pure threshold (and more generally, the test ideals) associated to a polynomial with an isolated singularity are locally constant in the m-adic topology of the corresponding local ring. As a by-product of our methods, we also describe a simple algorithm for computing all of the F-jumping numbers and test ideals associated to an arbitrary polynomial over an F-finite field.
We prove that if $f$ is a reduced homogenous polynomial of degree $d$, then its $F$-pure threshold at the unique homogeneous maximal ideal is at least $\frac{1}{d-1}$. We show, furthermore, that its $F$-pure threshold equals $\frac{1}{d-1}$ if and only if $f\in \mathfrak m^{[q]}$ and $d=q+1$, where $q$ is a power of $p$. Up to linear changes of coordinates (over a fixed algebraically closed field), we classify such "extremal singularities," and show that there is at most one with isolated singularity. Finally, we indicate several ways in which the projective hypersurfaces defined by such forms…
The $F$-pure threshold is a numerical invariant of prime characteristic singularities, that constitutes an analogue of the log canonical thresholds in characteristic zero. We compute the $F$-pure thresholds of determinantal ideals, i.e., of ideals generated by the minors of a generic matrix.
We continue our study of F-thresholds begun in math/0607660 by an in depth analysis of the hypersurface case. We use the D--module theoretic description of generalized test ideals which allows us to show that in any F--finite regular ring the F-thresholds of hypersurfaces are discrete and rational (in math/0607660 the finite type over a field case was shown for arbitrary ideals). Furthermore we show that any limit of F-pure thresholds of principal ideals in bouneded dimension is again an F-pure-threshold, hence in particular the limit is rational. The study of the set of F-pure-thresholds lead…
Università di Genova（热那亚大学）；Centro de Investigación en Matemáticas（数学研究中心）；BCAM – Basque Center for Applied Mathematics（巴斯克应用数学中心）；Ikerbasque, Basque Foundation for Science（伊卡巴斯科，巴斯克科学基金会）
We compute the $F$-pure threshold of a degree three homogeneous polynomial in three variables with an isolated singularity. The computation uses elementary methods to prove a known result of Bhatt and Singh.
Hibi rings are a kind of graded toric ring on a finite distributive lattice $D = J(P)$, where $P$ is a partially ordered set. In this paper, we compute diagonal F-thresholds and F-pure thresholds of Hibi rings.
We provide a formula for $F$-thresholds of a Thom-Sebastiani type polynomial over a perfect field of prime characteristic. This result extends the formula for the $F$-pure threshold of a diagonal hypersurface. We also compute the first test ideal of Thom-Sebastiani type polynomials. Finally, we apply our result to find hypersurfaces where the log canonical thresholds equals the $F$-pure thresholds for infinitely many prime numbers.
We provide a direct computation of the $F$-pure threshold of degree four homogeneous polynomial in two variables and, more generally, of certain homogeneous polynomials with four distinct roots. The computation depends on whether the cross ratio of the roots satisfies a specific Möbius transformation of a Legendre polynomial. We then make a connection between a long lasting open question, involving the relationship between the $F$-pure and the log canonical threshold, and roots of Legendre polynomials over $\mathbb{F}_p$.
The $F$-thresholds are important numerical invariants in prime characteristic, whose existence had been established only under certain assumptions. We show the existence of $F$-thresholds in full generality. We study properties of standard graded algebras over a field for which $F$-pure threshold and $F$-threshold at the irrelevant maximal ideal agree. We also exhibit explicit bounds for the $a$-invariants and Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of Frobenius powers of ideals in terms of $F$-thresholds and $F$-pure thresholds, obtaining existence of related limits in certain cases.
Bounds on the plus-pure thresholds of some hypersurfaces in (ramified) regular rings
Laboratoire de Mathématiques d’Orsay（奥赛数学实验室）；University of Illinois at Chicago（伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校）；Purdue University（普渡大学）；Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana（自治 Metropolitan 大学）；University of Utah（犹他大学）；University of Alabama（阿拉巴马大学）
Let $R\rightarrow S$ be an arbitrary ring extension of Noetherian rings. In this article we study the behaviour of Zariski closedness of the support of Lyubeznik functors $\mathrm{T}$, when the ring extension $R\rightarrow S$ is namely `flat', `faithfully flat', `pure' and lastly `cyclically pure'. We show that the Zariski closedness of the support comes down from extended ring to the base ring for faithfully flat, pure and finally for cyclically pure ring extensions. Lastly, we focus on a special case of pure extension i.e. when $R$ is a direct summand of $S$ and we compare the sets $\mathrm{…
The a-invariant, the F-pure threshold, and the diagonal F-threshold are three important invariants of a graded K-algebra. Hirose, Watanabe, and Yoshida have conjectured relations among these invariants for strongly F-regular rings. In this article, we prove that these relations hold only assuming that the algebra is F-pure. In addition, we present an interpretation of the a-invariant for F-pure Gorenstein graded K-algebras in terms of regular sequences that preserve F-purity. This result is in the spirit of Bertini theorems for projective varieties. Moreover, we show connections with projectiv…
In this article we study F-pure thresholds (and, more generally, F-thresholds) of homogeneous polynomials in two variables over a field of characteristic p>0. Passing to a field extension, we factor such a polynomial into a product of powers of pairwise prime linear forms, and to this collection of linear forms we associate a special type of function called a syzygy gap fractal. We use this syzygy gap fractal to study, at once, the collection of all F-pure thresholds of all polynomials constructed with the same fixed linear forms. This allows us to describe the structure of the denominator of …
In this note, we derive a formula for the F-pure threshold of diagonal hypersurfaces over a perfect field of prime characteristic. We also calculate the associated test ideal at the F-pure threshold, and give formulas for higher jumping numbers of Fermat hypersurfaces.
