Commutative Algebra Seminar
Fall 2024, Friday 2:00–3:00 pm, LCB 222
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August 30th | Adam Boocher University of San Diego |
Arithmetic in the Boij Soederberg Cone
A finitely generated graded module over a polynomial ring can have the property
that it is generated in a single degree. Further, it may happen that all of its relations have
the same degree, and so on with all subsequent relations (syzygies). Such modules are called
pure, and remarkably, the numeric data of the minimal free resolution of a pure module is
known precisely, up to a scalar multiple. Motivated by some classical questions concerning
syzygies, I will discuss how these lead naturally to systems of diophantine equations and will
share some interesting observations. This is joint work with two undergraduate students, Noah
Huang and Harrison Wolf.
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September 13th | Haydee Lindo Harvey Mudd College |
Introduction to trace ideals with applications
The well-known trace map on matrices can be generalized to a map on any module
over a commutative ring. The image of this map is a trace ideal. The modern theory of trace
ideals has found far-reaching applications, for instance, in calculating centers of
endomorphism rings, the classification of rings, and in approaching conjectures concerning
Ext-rigidity. This talk will serve as a gentle introduction to trace ideals with some
applications.
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October 18th | Krishna Hanumanthu Chennai Mathematical Institute |
Some recent results on Seshadri constants
Let X be a projective variety, and let L be an ample line bundle on X. For a point x in X, the Seshadri constant of L at x is defined as the infimum, taken over all curves C passing through x, of the ratios
\frac{L.C}{m}, where L.C denotes the intersection product of L and C, and m is the multiplicity of C at x. This concept was introduced by J.-P. Demailly in 1990, inspired by Seshadri’s ampleness criterion. Seshadri constants provide insights into
both the local behavior of L at x and certain global properties of X.
The notion of Seshadri constants has been extended in various directions. Two important generalizations include replacing L with a vector bundle of arbitrary rank and replacing the point x with a finite collection of points. We will give an overview of the current research in this area and discuss some recent results. |
October 25th | Jon Carlson University of Georgia |
Locally dualizable modules abound
This is joint work with Srikanth Iyengar. The derived category of a commutative local noetherian ring and the module category of a modular group algebra are tensor triangulated categories. A dualizable object in such a category is one that
has a dual that is compatible with the tensor structure. The question that we address in this paper is whether the subcategory of dualizable objects in certain colocal subcategories is the idempotent closure of image of the compact objects
under the local cohomology functor associated to the subcategory. In this lecture, I will try to explain what all of these words mean, why one might care about such a question and how we get a negative answer is certain cases.
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November 1st | David Eisenbud University of California, Berkeley |
(More) Summands of syzygies
Two years ago I spoke on work with Hailong Dao on the summands in syzygies of modules over artinian Burch rings. I'll review that story, and explain what we now know and conjecture about the direct sum decompositions of syzygies more
generally. This is work -- very much "in progress" -- with Dao, Polini and Ulrich; and, for part of it, Cuong and Kobayashi.
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November 22nd | TBA TBA |
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November 29th | No seminar Thanksgiving break |
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December 6th (Joint with RT/NT) |
Tongmu He Princeton University |
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