English

Generalized local duality, canonical modules, and prescribed bound on projective dimension

Commutative Algebra 2022-07-19 v2

Abstract

We present various approaches to J. Herzog's theory of generalized local cohomology and explore its main aspects, e.g., (non-)vanishing results as well as a general local duality theorem which extends, to a much broader class of rings, previous results by Herzog-Zamani and Suzuki. As an application, we establish a prescribed upper bound for the projective dimension of a module satisfying suitable cohomological conditions, and we derive some freeness criteria and questions of Auslander-Reiten type. Along the way, we prove a new characterization of Cohen-Macaulay modules which truly relies on generalized local cohomology, and in addition we introduce and study a generalization of the notion of canonical module.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2112.12632,
  title  = {Generalized local duality, canonical modules, and prescribed bound on projective dimension},
  author = {Thiago H. Freitas and Victor H. Jorge-Pérez and Cleto B. Miranda-Neto and Peter Schenzel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2112.12632},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

Final version, to appear in J. Pure Appl. Algebra

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