This paper discusses the problem of whether it is possible to annihilate elements of local cohomology modules by elements of arbitrarily small order under a fixed valuation. We first discuss the general problem and its relationship to the Direct Summand Conjecture, and next present two concrete examples where annihilators with small order are shown to exist. We then prove a more general theorem, where the existence of such annihilators is established in some cases using results on abelian varieties and the Albanese map.
We provide bounds on the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity in terms of ``defining equations'' by using elements that annihilates some cohomology modules, inspired by works of Miyazaki, Nagel, Schenzel and Vogel. The elements in these annihilators are provided either by liaison or by tight closure theories. Our results hold in any characteristic.
In this paper, we study the properties of noetherian rings with uniform annihilators. It turns out that all these rings should be universally catenary and locally equidimensional. We will give a necessary and sufficient condition for these rings, which enable us to prove that if a ring R is the image of a Cohen-Macaulay ring of finite dimension, then R has a uniform annihilator of local cohomology. Moreover, we will give a positive answer to the conjecture [Hu, Conjecture 2.13] about the excellent rings with dimension no more than 5.
The aim of this paper is to study the theory of cohomology annihilators over commutative Gorenstein rings. We adopt a triangulated category point of view and study the annihilation of stable category of maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules. We prove that in dimension one the cohomology annihilator ideal and the conductor ideal coincide under mild assumptions. We present a condition on a ring homomorphism between Gorenstein rings which allows us to carry the cohomology annihilator of the domain to that of the codomain. As an application, we generalize the Milnor-Jung formula for algebraic curves to t…
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.
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.
Let $\mathfrak a$ be an ideal of a commutative Noetherian ring $R$ and $t$ be a non-negative integer. Let $M$ and $N$ be two finitely generated $R$-modules. In certain cases, we give some bounds under inclusion for the annihilators of $\operatorname{Ext}^t_R(M, N)$ and $\operatorname{H}^t_{\mathfrak a}(M)$ in terms of minimal primary decomposition of the zero submodule of $M$ which are independent of the choice of minimal primary decomposition. Then, by using those bounds, we compute the annihilators of local cohomology and Ext modules in certain cases.
The aim of this paper is to study a deep connection between local cohomology annihilators and Macaulayfication and arithmetic Macaulayfication over a local ring. Local cohomology annihilators appear through the notion of p-standard system of parameters. For a local ring, we prove an equivalence of the existence of Macaulayfications; the existence of a p-standard system of parameters; being a quotient of a Cohen-Macaulay local ring; and the verification of Faltings' Annihilator theorem. For a finitely generated module which is unmixed and faithful, we prove an equivalence of the existence of an…
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.
It is proved that for a ring $R$ that is either an affine algebra over a field, or an equicharacteristic complete local ring, some power of the Jacobian ideal of $R$ annihilates $\mathrm{Ext}^{d+1}_{R}(-,-)$, where $d$ is the Krull dimension of $R$. Sufficient conditions are identified under which the Jacobian ideal itself annihilates these Ext-modules, and examples are provided that show that this is not always the case. A crucial new idea is to consider a derived version of the Noether different of an algebra.
Let $\frak a$ denote an ideal in a commutative Noetherian ring $R$ and $M$ a finitely generated $R$-module. In this paper, we introduce the concept of the cohomological dimension filtration $\mathscr{M} =\{M_i\}_{i=0}^c$, where $ c={\rm cd} ({\frak a},M)$ and $M_i$ denotes the largest submodule of $M$ such that ${\rm cd} ({\frak a}, M_i)\leq i.$ Some properties of this filtration are investigated. In particular, in the case that $(R, \frak m)$ is local and $c= \dim M$, we are able to determine the annihilator of the top local cohomology module $H_{\frak a}^c(M)$. In fact, it is shown that ${\r…
The cohomology annihilator of a noetherian ring that is finitely generated as a module over its center is introduced. Results are established linking the existence of non-trivial cohomology annihilators and the existence of strong generators for the category of finitely generated modules. Exploiting this link, results of Popescu and Roczen, and Wang concerning cohomology annihilators of commutative rings, and also results of Aihara and Takahashi, Keller and Van den Bergh, and Rouquier on strong finite generation of the corresponding bounded derived category, are generalized to cover excellent …
Let $\mathcal{Z}$ be a specialization closed subset of $\Spec R$ and $X$ a homologically left-bounded complex with finitely generated homologies. We establish Faltings' Local-global Principle and Annihilator Theorems for the local cohomology modules {$\H_{\mathcal{Z}^i(X).$ }} Our versions contain variations of results already known on these theorems.
Let \frak a be an ideal of a commutative Noetherian ring R and M a finitely generated R-module. It is shown that {\rm Ann}_R(H_{\frak a}^{{\dim M}({\frak a}, M)}(M))= {\rm Ann}_R(M/T_R({\frak a}, M)), where T_R({\frak a}, M) is the largest submodule of M such that {\rm cd}({\frak a}, T_R({\frak a}, M))< {\rm cd}({\frak a}, M). Several applications of this result are given. Among other things, it is shown that there exists an ideal \frak b of R such that {\rm Ann}_R(H_{\frak a}^{\dim M}(M))={\rm Ann}_R(M/H_{\frak b}^{0}(M)). Using this, we show that if H_{\frak a}^{\dim R}(R)=0, then {\rm Att}_…
Let $F$ be a field of characteristic $p$ and let $Ω^n(F)$ be the $F$-vector space of $n$-differential forms. In this work, we will study the annihilator of differential forms, give specific descriptions for special cases and show a connection between these annihilators and the kernels of the restriction map $Ω^n(F) \to Ω^n(E)$ for purely inseparable field extensions $E/F$.
This paper is concerned with the tight closure of an ideal in a commutative Noetherian local ring $R$ of prime characteristic $p$. Several authors, including R. Fedder, K.-i. Watanabe, K. E. Smith, N. Hara and F. Enescu, have used the natural Frobenius action on the top local cohomology module of such an $R$ to good effect in the study of tight closure, and this paper uses that device. The main part of the paper develops a theory of what are here called 'special annihilator submodules' of a left module over the Frobenius skew polynomial ring associated to $R$; this theory is then applied in th…
Let $R$ be a polynomial or formal power series ring with coefficients in a DVR $V$ of mixed characteristic with a uniformizer $π$. We prove that the $R$-module annihilator of any nonzero $\D(R,V)$-module is either zero or is generated by a power of $π$. In contrast to the equicharacteristic case, nonzero annihilators can occur; we give an example of a top local cohomology module of the ring $\mathbb{Z}_2[[x_0, \ldots, x_5]]$ that is annihilated by $2$, thereby answering a question of Hochster in the negative.
Given a commutative Noetherian ring $R$ with total ring of fractions $Q(R)$, and a finitely generated $R$-submodule $M$ of $Q(R)$, we prove an equality between trace ideal, and certain annihilator of Ext and Tor of $M$. As a consequence, we answer in one-dimensional local analytically unramified case, a question raised by the present author and R. Takahashi. As another application, we give an alternative proof of a recent result of Ö. Esentepe that for one-dimensional analytically unramified Gorenstein local rings, the cohomology annihilator of Iyengar and Takahashi coincides with the conducto…
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.
Let $R=\mathbb{C}[\{x_{ij}\}]$ be the ring of polynomial functions in $mn$ variables where $m> n$. Set $X$ to be the $m\times n$ matrix in these variables and $I:=I_n(X)$ the ideal of maximal minors of $X$. We consider the rings $R/I^t$; for $t\gg 0$ the depth of $R/I^t$ is equal to $n^2-1$, and we show that each local cohomology module $H^{n^2-1}_{\frak{m}}(R/I^t)$ is a cyclic $R$-module. We also compute the annihilator of $H^{n^2-1}_{\frak{m}}(R/I^t)$ thereby completely determining its $R$-module structure. In the case that $X$ is a $n\times (n-1)$ matrix we describe a map between the Koszul…
Let $(R, \frak m)$ be a local ring and $M$ a finitely generated $R$-module. It is shown that if $M$ is relative Cohen-Macaulay with respect to an ideal $\frak a$ of $R$, then $\text{Ann}_R(H_{\mathfrak{a}}^{\text{cd}(\mathfrak{a}, M)}(M))=\text{Ann}_RM/L=\text{Ann}_RM$ and $\text{Ass}_R(R/\text{Ann}_RM)\subseteq \{\mathfrak{p} \in \text{Ass}_R M|\,{\rm cd}(\mathfrak{a}, R/\mathfrak{p})=\text{cd}(\mathfrak{a}, M)\},$ where $L$ is the largest submodule of $M$ such that ${\rm cd}(\mathfrak{a}, L)< {\rm cd}(\mathfrak{a}, M)$. We also show that if $H^{\dim M}_{\mathfrak{a}}(M)=0$, then $\text{Att}_…
Let $F$ be a field of characteristic $p>0$ and let $Ω^n(F)$ be the $F$-vector space of $n$-differential forms over $F$. In this work we will study the behaviour of $Ω^n(F)$ under iterated function field extensions of $p$-forms. We will use results from a previous work to rewrite the kernel of the restriction map $Ω^n(F) \to Ω^n(F(φ_1,\ldots,φ_r))$ to a set of differential forms annihilated by specific forms given by the norm fields of $φ_1,\ldots,φ_r$. We will close this work by translating the new resluts to the theory of bilinear forms over fields of characteristic $2$.
In this thesis, the class of modules whose Cousin complexes have finitely generated cohomologies are studied as a subclass of modules which have uniform local cohomological annihilators and it is shown that these two classes coincide over local rings with Cohen-Macaulay formal fibres. This point of view enables us to obtain some properties of modules with finite Cousin complexes and find some characterizations of them. In this connection we discuss attached prime ideals of certain local cohomology modules in terms of cohomologies of Cousin complexes. In continuation, we study the top local coh…
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 commutative Noetherian ring, $M$ a finitely generated $R$-module and $n$ be a non-negative integer. In this article, it is shown that there is a finitely generated submodule $N_i$ of $H_{\frak a}^i(M)$ such that $\dim{\rm Supp } H_{\frak a}^i(M)/N_i<n$ for all $i<t$ if and only if there is a finitely generated submodule $N_{i,{\frak p}}$ of $H_{{\frak a} R_{\frak p}}^i(M_{\frak p})$ such that $\dim{\rm Supp } H_{{\frak a} R_{\frak p}}^i(M_{\frak p})/N_{i,{\frak p}}<n$ for all $i<t$. This generalizes Faltings' Local-global Principle for the finiteness of local cohomology modules (F…
Using the theory of cohomology annihilators, we define a family of topologies on the set of isomorphism classes of maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over a Gorenstein ring. We study compactness of these topologies.
The purpose of this survey is to explain some recent results about analogies between characteristic 0 and characteristic $p>0$ geometry, and to discuss an infinitesimal variant of motivic cohomology. More specifically, we review results showing that the big de Rham Witt complex of a field is a complex of 0-cycles (section 2), as well as results showing analogies between char. $p>0$ and char. 0 geometry. Some of those results determine local cohomology invariants of singular varieties (section 3) and others are concerned with congruences modulo $q$-powers for the number of rational points of va…
Let $R$ be a commutative Noetherian local ring of prime characteristic $p$. The main purposes of this paper are to show that if the injective envelope $E$ of the simple $R$-module has a structure as a torsion-free left module over the Frobenius skew polynomial ring over $R$, then $R$ has a tight closure test element (for modules) and is $F$-pure, and to relate the test ideal of $R$ to the smallest '$E$-special' ideal of $R$ of positive height. A byproduct is an analogue of a result of Janet Cowden Vassilev: she showed, in the case where $R$ is an $F$-pure homomorphic image of an $F$-finite reg…
Let S be a toric algebra over a field K of characteristic 0 and let I be a monomial ideal of S. We show that the local cohomology modules H^i_I(S) are of finite length over the ring of differential operators D(S;K), generalizing the classical case of a polynomial algebra S. As an application, we compute the characteristic cycles of some local cohomology modules.
Comparing vanishing of local cohomology in zero and positive characteristic, we give an example of a D-module on a Grassmann variety in positive characteristic with non-vanishing first cohomology group. This is a counterexample to D-affinity and the Beilinson-Bernstein equivalence for flag manifolds in positive characteristic.
The aim of this paper is to extend the main result of C. Huneke and G. Lyubeznik in [Adv. Math. 210 (2007), 498--504] to the class of rings that are images of Cohen-Macaulay local rings. Namely, let $R$ be a local Noetherian domain of positive characteristic that is an image of a Cohen-Macaulay local ring. We prove that all local cohomology of $R$ (below the dimension) maps to zero in a finite extension of the ring. As a direct consequence we obtain that the absolute integral closure of $R$ is a big Cohen-Macaulay algebra. Since every excellent local ring is an image of a Cohen-Macaulay local …
In this paper we present a condition on a local Cohen-Macaulay F-injective ring of positive characteristic $p > 2$ which implies that its top local cohomology module with support in the maximal ideal has finitely many Frobenius compatible submodules.
Let $R=k[x_1,\dots,x_n]$ be a ring of polynomials over a field $k$ of characteristic $p>0$. There is an algorithm due to Lyubeznik for deciding the vanishing of local cohomology modules $H^i_I(R)$ where $I\subset R$ is an ideal. This algorithm has not been implemented because its complexity grows very rapidly with the growth of $p$ which makes it impractical. In this paper we produce a modification of this algorithm that consumes a modest amount of memory.
We find sufficient conditions which imply equality of the finitistic test ideal and test ideal in rings of prime characteristic. Utilizing recent progress from the prime characteristic minimal model program we equate the notions of $F$-regular and strongly $F$-regular for 4-dimensional rings essentially of finite type over a field of prime characteristic $p>5$.
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 $R$.
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.
This paper continues the investigation of quasilength, of content of local cohomology with respect to generators of the support ideal, and of robust algebras begun in joint work of Hochster and Huneke. We settle several questions raised by Hochster and Huneke. In particular, we give a family of examples of top local cohomology modules both in equal characteristic 0 and in positive prime characteristic that are nonzero but have content 0. We use the notion of a robust forcing algebra (the condition turns out to be strictly stronger than the notion of a solid forcing algebra in, for example, equ…
Let $R=k[x_1,..., x_n]$ be a polynomial ring over a field $k$ of characteristic $p>0,$ and let $I=(f_1,...,f_s)$ be an ideal of $R.$ We prove that every associated prime $P$ of $H^i_I(R)$ satisfies $\text{dim}R/P\geqslant n-\sum\text{deg}f_i.$ In characteristic 0 the question is open.
