Let $S=k[x_1,..., x_n]$ be a polynomial ring over a field $k$ with $n$ variables $x_1$, ..., $x_n$, $\mmmm$ the irrelevant maximal ideal of $S$, $I$ a monomial ideal in $S$ and $I'$ the polarization of $I$ in the polynomial ring $S'$ with $ρ$ variables. We show that each graded piece $H_\mmmm^i(S/I)_\aaa$, $\aaa\in\ZZZ^n$, of the local cohomology module $H_\mmmm^i(S/I)$ is isomorphic to a specific graded piece $H_{\mmmm'}^{i+ρ-n}(S'/I')_\alphaaa$, $\alphaaa\in\ZZZ^ρ$, of the local cohomology module $H_{\mmmm'}^{i+ρ-n}(S'/I')$, where $\mmmm'$ is the irrelevant maximal ideal of $S'$.
We introduce a notion of generalized local cohomology modules with respect to a pair of ideals $(I,J)$ which is a generalization of the concept of local cohomology modules with respect to $(I,J).$ We show that generalized local cohomology modules $H^i_{I,J}(M,N)$ can be computed by the Čech cohomology modules. We also study the artinianness of generalized local cohomology modules $H^i_{I,J}(M,N).$
Through a study of torsion functors of local cohomology modules we improve some non-finiteness results on the top non-zero local cohomology modules with respect to an ideal.
This paper discusses the connection between the local cohomology modules and the Serre classes of $R$-modules. Such connection provided a common language for expressing some results about the local cohomology $R$-modules, that has appeared in different papers.
In this paper, some results on vanishing and non-vanishing of generalized local cohomology modules are presented and some relations between those modules and, Ext and ordinary local cohomology modules are studied. Also, several cofiniteness propositions for generalized local cohomology modules are established which, among other things, provide an alternative answer to a question in [Y2].
Yoshizawa investigated when local cohomology modules have an annihilator that does not depend on the choice of the defining ideal. In this paper we refine his results and investigate the relationship between annihilators of local cohomology modules and restricted flat dimensions.
Let $\fa$ be an ideal of a $d$-dimensional commutative Noetherian ring $R$. In this paper we give some information on some last non-zero local cohomology modules known as top local cohomology modules in particular, $H^{d-1}_{\fa}(R)$.
Let $K$ be an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero and let $R = K[X_1,\ldots,X_n]$. Let $I$ be an ideal in $R$. Let $A_n(K)$ be the $n^{th}$ Weyl algebra over $K$. By a result of Lyubeznik, the local cohomology modules $H^i_I(R)$ are holonomic $A_n(K)$-modules for each $i \geq 0$. In this paper we compute the Euler characteristic of De-Rahm cohomology of $H^{\htt P}_P(R)$ for certain classes of prime ideals $P$ in $R$.
For a finite module $M$ over a local, equicharacteristic ring $(R,m)$, we show that the well-known formula $\cohdim(m,M)=\dim M$ becomes trivial if ones uses Matlis duals of local cohomology modules together with spectral sequences. We also prove a new, ring-theoretic vanishing criterion for local cohomology modules.
Let $K$ be a field of characteristic zero, $R = K[X_1,...,X_n]$ and let $I$ be an ideal in $R$. Let $A_n(K) = K<X_1,...,X_n, \partial_1,..., \partial_n>$ be the $n^{th}$ Weyl algebra over $K$. By a result due to Lyubeznik the local cohomology modules $H^i_I(R)$ are holonomic $A_n(K)$-modules for each $i \geq 0$. In this article we compute the Koszul homology modules $H_*(\partial_1,...,\partial_n ; H^*_I(R))$ for certain classes of ideals.
We investigate Matlis duals of local cohomology modules and prove that, in general, their zeroth Bass number with respect to the zero ideal is not finite. We also prove that, somewhat surprisingly, if we apply local cohomology again (i. e. to the Matlis dual of the local cohomology module), we get (under certain hypotheses) either zero or $E$, an $R$-injective hull of the residue field of the local ring $R$.
Let $R$ be a commutative Noetherian ring and $M$ be a finitely generated $R$-module. Considering the new concept of linkage of ideals over a module, we study associated prime ideals, cofiniteness and Artinianness of local cohomology modules of $M$ with respect to some linked ideals over it.
This is an expanded version of a lecture on finiteness properties of local cohomology modules given at the 48th Algebra Symposium held at Nagoya University in August 2003.
Let $J$ be an ideal of a noetherian local ring $R$. We show new results on the set of attached primes $\Att_R(\LCMo ^l_J(R))$ of a local cohomology module $\LCMo ^l_J(R)$. To prove our results we establish and use new relations between the set $\Att_R(\LCMo ^l_J(R))$ of attached primes of a local cohomology module and the set $\Ass_R(D(\LCMo ^l_J(R)))$ of associated primes of the Matlis dual of the same local cohomology module.
We provide new results on the vanishing of local cohomology modules supported at ideals of minors of matrices over arbitrary commutative Noetherian rings. In the process, we compute the local cohomology of rings of polynomials with integer coefficients---supported at generic determinantal ideals---and also obtain results on F-modules and D-modules that are likely to be of independent interest.
Some affirmative answers are given to Huneke's problems. The calculation of local cohomology modules with respect to an arbitrary pair of ideals $I,J$ can be reduced to calculation of local cohomology modules with respect to a pair of ideala whose first ideal is generated by any $k$-regular sequence in $I$.
After motivating the question we prove various results about the set of associated primes of Matlis duals of top local cohomology modules. In some cases we can calculate this set, for the general situation we present a conjecture. An easy application of this theory is the well-known fact that Krull dimension can be expressed by the vanishing of local cohomology modules.
We construct an example where a local cohomology module of a hypersurface has p-torsion elements for every prime integer p, and consequently has infinitely many associated prime ideals. We also answer a related question of Hochster.
This paper centers around Artinianness of the local cohomology of $ZD$-modules. Let $\fa$ be an ideal of a commutative Noetherian ring $R$. The notion of $\fa$-relative Goldie dimension of an $R$-module $M$, as a generalization of that of Goldie dimension is presented. Let $M$ be a $ZD$-module such that $\fa$-relative Goldie dimension of any quotient of $M$ is finite. It is shown that if $\dim R/\fa=0$, then the local cohomology modules $H^i_{\fa}(M)$ are Artinian. Also, it is proved that if $d=\dim M$ is finite, then $H^d_{\fa}(M)$ is Artinian, for any ideal $\fa$ of $R$ . These results exten…
We compare and contrast various relative cohomology theories that arise from resolutions involving semidualizing modules. We prove a general balance result for relative cohomology over a Cohen-Macaulay ring with a dualizing module, and we demonstrate the failure of the naive version of balance one might expect for these functors. We prove that the natural comparison morphisms between relative cohomology modules are isomorphisms in several cases, and we provide a Yoneda-type description of the first relative Ext functor. Finally, we show by example that each distinct relative cohomology constru…
Lyubeznik conjectured that local cohomology modules of regular rings have finitely many associated primes. We examine this conjecture for polynomial rings over the integers, and record some equational identities that arise from studying special cases.
This paper applies G. Lyubeznik's notion of $F$-finite modules to describe in a very down-to-earth manner certain annihilator submodules of some top local cohomology modules over Gorenstein rings. As a consequence we obtain an explicit description of the test ideal of Gorenstein rings in terms of ideals in a regular ring.
This paper investigates when local cohomology modules have an annihilator that does not depend on the choice of an ideal. Takahashi classified the dominant resolving subcategories of the category of finitely generated modules over a commutative Noetherian ring. We show that his classification theorem describes annihilation results of local cohomology modules over a finite-dimensional ring with certain assumptions or a Cohen-Macaulay ring.
In this paper, considering the difference between the finiteness dimension and cohomological dimension for a finitely generated module, we investigate the asymptotic behavior of grades of components of graded local cohomology modules with respect to irrelevant ideal; as long as we study some artinian and tameness property of such modules.
Let $R$ be a Noetherian ring, $I$ an ideal of $R$ and $M$ an $R$-module. In this article, we examine the question of whether an arbitrary top local cohomology module, $\operatorname{H}^{\operatorname{cd}(I,M)}_I(M)$, is Artinian, or not. Several results related to this question are obtained; in particular, we prove that over a Noetherian local unique factorization domain $R$ of dimension three, for a finitely generated faithful module $M$, a top local cohomology module is Artinian if and only if $\operatorname{cd}(I,M)= 3$.
We use a result of Hellus about generalized local duality to describe some generalized Matlis duals for certain quasi-\F-modules. Furthermore, we apply this description to obtain examples for non-artinian local cohomology modules by the theory of \F-modules. In particular, we get a new view on Hartshorne's counterexample for a conjecture by Grothendieck about the finiteness of $Hom_R(R/I,H^i_I(R))$ for a noetherian local Ring $R$ and an ideal $I \subseteq R$.
Let $\mathfrak{a}$ denote an ideal of a commutative Noetherian ring $R$. Let $M$ and $N$ be two $R$-modules. In this paper, we give partial answers on the extension of Hartshorne's conjecture about the cofiniteness of torsion and extension functors. For this purpose, we study the cofiniteness of the generalized local cohomology module $H^{i}_{\mathfrak{a}}(M, N)$ for a new class of modules, called $\mathfrak{a}$-weakly finite modules, in the local and non-local case. Furthermore, we derive some results on attached primes of top generalized local cohomology modules.
Let $A$ be a commutative noetherian ring, let $\mathfrak a$ be an ideal of $A$ and let $n$ be a non-negative integer. In this paper, we study $\mathcal{S}_{n}(\mathfrak{a})$, a certain class of $A$-modules and we find some sufficient conditions so that a module belongs to $\mathcal{S}_{n}(\mathfrak{a})$. Moreover, we study the cofiniteness of local cohomology modules when $\dim A/\frak a\geq 3$.
The main result of the paper states that for a graded ideal I in a polynomial ring R over a field of characteristic 0, the Hilbert functions of the local cohomology modules of R/I and of R/Gin(I) coincide if and only if R/I is sequentially Cohen-Macaulay.
Local cohomology modules, even over a Noetherian ring $R$, are typically unwieldly. As such, it is of interest whether or not they have finitely many associated primes. We prove the affirmative in the case where $R$ is a Stanley-Reisner ring over a field, whose associated simplicial complex is a $T$-space.
We introduce the notion of E-depth of graded modules over polynomial rings to measure the depth of certain Ext modules. First, we characterize graded modules over polynomial rings with (sufficiently) large E-depth as those modules whose (sufficiently) partial general initial submodules preserve the Hilbert function of local cohomology modules supported at the irrelevant maximal ideal, extending a result of Herzog and Sbarra on sequentially Cohen-Macaulay modules. Second, we describe the cone of local cohomology tables of modules with sufficiently high E-depth, building on previous work of the …
Cofiniteness of the generalized local cohomology modules Hai(M, N) of two R-modules M and N with respect to an ideal a is studied for some i,s with a specified property. Furthermore, Artinianness of Hbj 0(Hai(M, N)) is investigated by using the above result, in certain graded situations, where b 0 is an ideal of R 0 such that b 0 + a 0 is an m 0-primary ideal.
Formulas are obtained in terms of complete reductions for the bigraded components of local cohomology modules of bigraded Rees algebras of 0-dimensional ideals in 2-dimensional Cohen-Macaulay local rings. As a consequence, cohomological expressions for the coefficients of the Bhattacharya polynomial of such ideals are obtained.
The Frobenius depth denoted by F-depth defined by Hartshorne-Speiser in 1977 and later by Lyubeznik in 2006, in a different way, for rings of positive characteristic. The first aim of the present paper is to compare the F-depth with formal grade and reprove some results of Lyubeznik using formal local cohomology. Then the endomorphism rings of local cohomology modules will be considered. As an application, we reprove the results due to Huneke-Koh in positive characteristic and Lyubeznik in characteristic zero on the annihilators of local cohomology modules.
Let $R$ be a standard graded polynomial ring that is finitely generated over a field, and let $I$ be a homogenous prime ideal of $R$. Bhatt, Blickle, Lyubeznik, Singh, and Zhang examined the local cohomology of $R/I^t$, as $t$ grows arbitrarily large. Such rings are known as thickenings of $R/I$. We consider $R = \mathbb{F}[X]$ where $\mathbb{F}$ is a field of characteristic 0, $X$ is a $2 \times m$ matrix, and $I$ is the ideal generated by size two minors. We give concrete constructions for the local cohomology modules of thickenings of $R/I$. Bizarrely, these local cohomology modules can be …
We study the conditions under which the highest nonvanishing local cohomology module of a domain $R$ with support in an ideal $I$ is faithful over $R$, i.e., which guarantee that $H^c_I(R)$ is faithful, where $c$ is the cohomological dimension of $I$. In particular, we prove that this is true for the case of positive prime characteristic when $c$ is the number of generators of $I$.
Let $K$ be a field of characteristic zero, $R = K[X_1,...,X_n]$. Let $A_n(K) = K<X_1,...,X_n, \partial_1, ..., \partial_n>$ be the $n^{th}$ Weyl algebra over $K$. We consider the case when $R$ and $A_n(K)$ is graded by giving $°X_i = ω_i $ and $°\partial_i = -ω_i$ for $i =1,...,n$ (here $ω_i$ are positive integers). Set $ω= \sum_{k=1}^{n}ω_k$. Let $I$ be a graded ideal in $R$. By a result due to Lyubeznik the local cohomology modules $H^i_I(R)$ are holonomic $A_n(K)$-modules for each $i \geq 0$. In this article we prove that the De Rahm cohomology modules $H^*(\bP ; H^*_I(R))$ is concentrated …
Let $(R,\fm)$ be a local ring and let $C$ be a semidualizing $R$--module. In this paper, we are concerned in $C$--injective and $G_{C}$--injective dimensions of certain local cohomology modules of $R$. Firstly, the injective dimension of $C$ and the above quantities of dimensions is compared. Then, as an application of the above comparisons, a characterization of a dualizing module of $R$ is given. Finally, it is shown that if $R$ is Cohen-Macaulay of dimension $d$ such that $\H_{\fm}^{d}(C)$ is $C$--injective, then $R$ is Gorernstein. This is an answer to the question which was recently prese…
Lyubeznik's conjecture, (\cite{Ly1}, Remark 3.7) asserts the finiteness of the set ssociated primes of local cohomology modules for regular rings. But, in the case of ramified regular local ring, it is open. Recently, in Theorem 1.2 of \cite{Nu1}, it is proved that in any Noetherian regular local ring $S$ and for a fixed ideal $J\subset S$, associated primes of local cohomology $H^i_J(S)$ for $i\geq 0$ is finite, if it does not contain $p$. In this paper, we use this result to construct examples of local cohomology modules for ramified regular local ring so that they have finitely many associa…
We construct normal hypersurfaces whose local cohomology modules have infinitely many associated primes. These include unique factorization domains of characteristic zero with rational singularities, as well as F-regular unique factorization domains of positive characteristic. As a consequence, we answer a question on the associated primes of Frobenius powers of ideals, which arose from the localization problem in tight closure theory.
Let $\mathfrak{a}$ be an ideal of a commutative Noetherian ring $R$ and $M$ a finitely generated $R$-module. In this paper we proved that if $\operatorname{Supp}\mathfrak{F}_\mathfrak{a}^i(M)$ is finite for all $i<t$, then so is $\operatorname{Ass}(\mathfrak{F}_{\mathfrak{a}}^t(M))$.
One classical topic in the study of local cohomology is whether the non-vanishing of a specific local cohomology module is equivalent to the vanishing of its annihilator; this has been studied by several authors, including Huneke, Koh, Lyubeznik and Lynch. Motivated by questions raised by Lynch and Zhang, the goal of this paper is to provide some new results about this topic, which provide some partial positive answers to these questions. The main technical tool we exploit is the structure of local cohomology as module over rings of differential operators.
Let $K$ be a field of characteristic zero and let $R = K[X_1,\ldots,X_n]$. Let $I$ be an ideal in $R$ and let $M = H^i_I(R)$ be the $i^{th}$-local cohomology module of $R$ with respect to $I$. Let $c = \ injdim \ M$. We prove that if $P$ is a prime ideal in $R$ with Bass number $μ_c(P,M) > 0$ then $P$ is a maximal ideal in $R$.
For a noetherian ring R we call an R-module M cofinite if there exists an ideal I of R such that M is I-cofinite; we show that every cofinite module M satisfies dim_R(M)<=injdimR(M). As an application we study the question which local cohomology modules H^i_I(R) satisfy injdim_R(H^i_I(R)) = dim_R(H^i_I(R)). There are two situations where the answer is positive. On the other hand we present two counter-examples, the failure in these two examples coming from different reasons.
We show that existence of nonzero nilpotent elements in the $\Z$-module $\Z/(p_1^{k_1}\times \cdots \times p_n^{k_n})\Z$ inhibits the module from possessing good structural properties. In particular, it stops it from being semisimple and from admitting certain good homological properties.
For a finitely generated module $M$, over a commutative Noetherian local ring $(R, \mathfrak{m})$, it is shown that there exist only a finite number of non--isomorphic top local cohomology modules $\mathrm{H}_{\mathfrak{a}}^{\mathrm{dim} (M)}(M)$, for all ideals $\mathfrak{a}$ of $R$. We present a reduced secondary representation for the top local cohomology modules with respect to an ideal. It is also shown that for a given integer $r\geq 0$, if $\mathrm{H}_{\mathfrak{a}}^{r}(R/\mathfrak {p})$ is zero for all $\mathfrak{p}$ in $\mathrm{Supp}(M)$, then $\mathrm{H}_{\mathfrak{a}}^{i}(M)= 0$ for…
Let $\fa$ denote an ideal of a commutative Noetherian ring $R$ and $M$ and $N$ two finitely generated $R$-modules with $\pd M< \infty$. It is shown that if $\fa$ is principal or $R$ is complete local and $\fa$ a prime ideal with $\dim R/\fa=1$, then the generalized local cohomology module $H^i_{\fa}(M,N)$ is $\fa$-cofinite for all $i \geq 0$. This provides an affirmative answer for the above ideal $\fa$ to a question proposed in [{\bf 13}].
Let R be a Noetherian standard graded ring, and M and N two finitely generated graded R-modules. We introduce reg_R (M,N) by using the notion of generalized local cohomology instead of local cohomology, in the definition of regularity. We prove that reg_R (M,N)is finite in several cases. In the case that the base ring is a field, we show that reg_R (M,N)=reg (N)-indeg (M). This formula, together with a graded version of duality for generalized local cohomology, gives a formula for the minimum of the initial degrees of some Ext modules(in the case R is Cohen-Macaulay), of which the three usual …
Let $R$ be a Gorenstein local ring, $\frak{a}$ an ideal in $R$, and $M$ an $R$-module. The local cohomology of $M$ supported at $\frak{a}$ can be computed by applying the $\frak{a}$-torsion functor to an injective resolution of $M$. Since $R$ is Gorenstein, $M$ has a complete injective resolution, so it is natural to ask what one gets by applying the $\frak{a}$-torsion functor to it. Following this lead, we define stable local cohomology for modules with complete injective resolutions. This gives a functor to the stable category of Gorenstein injective modules. We show that in many ways this b…
Let $R$ be a commutative Noetherian ring with non-zero identity and $\fa$ an ideal of $R$. Let $M$ be a finite $R$--module of of finite projective dimension and $N$ an arbitrary finite $R$--module. We characterize the membership of the generalized local cohomology modules $\lc^{i}_{\fa}(M,N)$ in certain Serre subcategories of the category of modules from upper bounds. We define and study the properties of a generalization of cohomological dimension of generalized local cohomology modules. Let $\mathcal S$ be a Serre subcategory of the category of $R$--modules and $n \geqslant \pd M$ be an inte…
Let $\mathfrak{a}$ be an ideal of Noetherian ring $R$ and let $M$ be an $R$-module such that $\mathrm{Ext}^i_R(R/\mathfrak{a},M)$ is finite $R$-module for every $i$. If $s$ is the first integer such that the local cohomology module $\mathrm{H}^s_\mathfrak{a}(M)$ is non $\mathfrak{a}$-cofinite, then we show that $\mathrm{Hom}_{R}(R/\mathfrak{a}, \mathrm{H}^s_\mathfrak{a}(M))$ is finite. Specially, the set of associated primes of $\mathrm{H}^s_\mathfrak{a}(M)$ is finite. Next assume $(R,\mathfrak{m})$ is a local Noetherian ring and $M$ is a finitely generated module. We study the last integer $n…
The purpose of this paper is to give some equivalent conditions to the socle and Bass numbers' conjectures which raised by C. Huneke in (Problems on local cohomology, Free resolutions in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry, Res. Notes Math. 1992, pp. 93-108). In addition, some results about certain Gorenstein ideals are included.
