English

Bernstein-Sato polynomials and test modules in positive characteristic

Commutative Algebra 2015-04-22 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

In analogy with the complex analytic case, Musta\c{t}\u{a} constructed (a family of) Bernstein-Sato polynomials for the structure sheaf OX\mathcal{O}_X and a hypersurface (f=0)(f=0) in XX, where XX is a regular variety over an FF-finite field of positive characteristic (see arxiv:0711.3794). He shows that the suitably interpreted zeros of his Bernstein-Sato polynomials correspond to the jumping numbers of the test ideal filtration τ(X,ft)\tau(X,f^t). In the present paper we generalize Musta\c{t}\u{a}'s construction replacing OX\mathcal{O}_X by an arbitrary FF-regular Cartier module MM on XX and show an analogous correspondence of the zeros of our Bernstein-Sato polynomials with the jumping numbers of the associated filtration of test modules τ(M,ft)\tau(M,f^t) provided that ff is a non-zero divisor on MM.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1402.1333,
  title  = {Bernstein-Sato polynomials and test modules in positive characteristic},
  author = {Manuel Blickle and Axel Stäbler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1402.1333},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

13 pages; v2: Corrected a mistake in Lemma 4.1, a comparison to Stadnik's theory of $b$-functions (arXiv:1206.4039) was added; final version

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