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Gorenstein in codimension 4 - the general structure theory

Algebraic Geometry 2013-04-22 v1 Commutative Algebra

Abstract

I describe the projective resolution of a codimension 4 Gorenstein ideal, aiming to extend Buchsbaum and Eisenbud's famous result in codimension 3. The main result is a structure theorem stating that the ideal is determined by its (k+1) x 2k matrix of first syzygies, viewed as a morphism from the ambient regular space to the Spin-Hom variety SpH_k in Mat(k+1,2k). This is a general result encapsulating some theoretical aspects of the problem, but, as it stands, is still some way from tractable applications.

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@article{arxiv.1304.5248,
  title  = {Gorenstein in codimension 4 - the general structure theory},
  author = {Miles Reid},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.5248},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

To appear in Algebraic Geometry in East Asia (Taipei Nov 2011), Advanced Studies in Pure Mathematics, 2013. 30 pp, The website http://www.warwick.ac.uk/staff/Miles.Reid/codim4 contains material accompanying this paper

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