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Cohomological and projective dimensions

Commutative Algebra 2019-02-20 v3 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

In this paper we give an upper bound, in characteristic 0, for the cohomological dimension of a graded ideal in a polynomial ring such that the quotient has depth at least 3. In positive characteristic the same bound holds true by a well-known theorem of Peskine and Szpiro. As a corollary, we give new examples of prime ideals that are not set-theoretically Cohen-Macaulay.

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@article{arxiv.1204.3280,
  title  = {Cohomological and projective dimensions},
  author = {Matteo Varbaro},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1204.3280},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

6 pages. Corrected some typos and added details in Example 3.9. Added Example 2.3 and rearranged the proof of Proposition 3.1. To appear in Compositio Math

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