A case study in bigraded commutative algebra

We are interested in the structure of almost complete intersection ideals of grade 3. We give three constructions of these ideals and their free resolutions: one from the commutative algebra point of view, an equivariant construction giving a nice canonical form, andfinally an interpretation in terms of open sets in certain Schubert varieties.

Let $I$ be a monomial ideal in two variables generated by three monomials and let $\mathcal{R}(I)$ be its Rees ideal. We describe an algorithm to compute the minimal generating set of $\mathcal{R}(I)$. Based on the data obtained by this algorithm, we build a graph that encodes the minimal free resolution of $\mathcal{R}(I)$. We explicitly describe the modules and differentials on the minimal free resolution of $\mathcal{R}(I)$.

Let $S$ be the power series ring or the polynomial ring over a field $K$ in the variables $x_1,\ldots,x_n$, and let $R=S/I$, where $I$ is proper ideal which we assume to be graded if $S$ is the polynomial ring. We give an explicit description of the cycles of the Koszul complex whose homology classes generate the Koszul homology of $R=S/I$ with respect to $x_1,\ldots,x_n$. The description is given in terms of the data of the free $S$-resolution of $R$. The result is used to d...

These lecture notes are an expanded write-up of my short lecture series "Noncommutative Resolutions" given to the MSRI Graduate Student Workshop "Noncommutative Algebraic Geometry" during June 2012. The notes include five chapters, an appendix on quivers, exercises and sketch solutions. The accompanying video lectures can be found at http://www.msri.org/web/msri/scientific/workshops/show/-/event/Wm9213

We construct a family of connected graded domains of GK-dimension 4 that are birational to P2, and show that the general member of this family is noetherian. This disproves a conjecture of the first author and Stafford. The algebras we construct are Koszul and have global dimension 4. They fail to be Artin-Schelter Gorenstein, however, showing that a theorem of Zhang and Stephenson for dimension 3 algebras does not extend to dimension 4. The Auslander-Buchsbaum formula also...

In this paper, we investigate the differential smoothness of skew PBW extensions over commutative polynomial rings on one and two indeterminates.

We describe the positive cone generated by bigraded Betti diagrams of artinian modules of codimension two, whose resolutions become pure of a given type when taking total degrees. If the differences of these total degrees, p and q, are relatively prime, the extremal rays are parametrised by order ideals in N^2 contained in the region px + qy < (p-1)(q-1). We also consider some examples concerning artinian modules of codimension three.

Let $R$ be a standard graded commutative algebra over a field $k$, let $K$ be its Koszul complex viewed as a differential graded $k$-algebra, and let $H$ be the homology algebra of $K$. This paper studies the interplay between homological properties of the three algebras $R$, $K$, and $H$. In particular, we introduce two definitions of Koszulness that extend the familiar property originally introduced by Priddy: one which applies to $K$ (and, more generally, to any connected ...

Ideals in the ring of power series in three variables can be classified based on algebra structures on their minimal free resolutions. The classification is incomplete in the sense that it remains open which algebra structures actually occur; this realizability question was formally raised by Avramov in 2012. We discuss the outcomes of an experiment performed to shed light on Avramov's question: Using the computer algebra system Macaulay2, we classify a billion randomly gener...

Let Z be a finite set of double points in P^1 x P^1 and suppose further that X, the support of Z, is arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay (ACM). We present an algorithm, which depends only upon a combinatorial description of X, for the bigraded Betti numbers of I_Z, the defining ideal of Z. We then relate the total Betti numbers of I_Z to the shifts in the graded resolution, thus answering a special case of a question of T. Roemer.