Jacobian criteria for complete intersections. The graded case

Summary LetP be a positively graded polynomial ring over a fieldk of characteristic zero, letI be a homogeneous ideal ofP, and setR=P/I. The paper investigates the homological properties of someR-modules canonically associated withR, among them the module _R/k of Kähler differentials and the conormal moduleI/I ².It is shown that a subexponential bound on the Betti numbers of any of these modules implies thatI is generated by aP-regular sequence. In particular, the finiteness of the projective dimension of the conormal module impliesR is a complete intersection. Similarly, the finiteness of the projective dimension of the differential module impliesR is a reduced complete intersection. This provides strong converses to some well-known properties of complete intersections, and establishes special cases of conjectures of Vasconcelos.The proofs of these results make extensive use of differential graded homological algebra. The crucial step is to show that any homomorphism of complexes from the minimal cotangent complexL _R/k of André and Quillen into the minimal free resolution of the irrelevant maximal ideal m ofR, which extends the Euler map _R/k , is a split embedding of gradedR-modules.Oblatum 14-IV-1993 & 9-IX-1993Dedicated to Professor Ernst Kunz on his sixtieth birthdayThe first author was partly supported by a grant from NSF. During the peparation of this paper the second author was supported by Purdue University, whose hospitality he wishes to acknowledge     

The graded modules for the graded contact cartan algebras

In this paper we investigate the graded modules for the graded contact Cartan algebras K(n, m) and K(n). For a canonical basis of uPTG module, we derive a commutator formula and then realize Shen's mixed product module in uPTG module ν(n, m) for H(n, m). Considering the Poisson subalgebra K as 1-dimensional central extension of H(n,m), we describe the irreducible PTG modules for K(n,m) and K(n) respectively. In particular, for arbitrary K(n,m), we recover Holmes' work for K(n,1)     

Semigroup graded algebras and graded PI-exponent

Let S be a semigroup. We study the structure of graded-simple S-graded algebras A and the exponential rate PIexp ^S-gr(A):= lim_n→∞ \(\sqrt[n]{{c_n^{S - gr}\left( A \right)}}\) of growth of codimensions c _n ^S-gr (A) of their graded polynomial identities. This is of great interest since such algebras can have non-integer PIexp ^S-gr(A) despite being finite dimensional and associative. In addition, such algebras can have a non-trivial Jacobson radical J(A). All this is in strong contrast with the case when S is a group since in the group case J(A) is trivial, PIexp ^S-gr(A) is always integer and, if the base field is algebraically closed, then PIexp ^S-gr(A) equals dimA. Without any restrictions on the base field F, we classify graded-simple S-graded algebras A for a class of semigroups S which is complementary to the class of groups. We explicitly describe the structure of J(A) showing that J(A) is built up of pieces of a maximal S-graded semisimple subalgebra of A which turns out to be simple. When F is algebraically closed, we get an upper bound for \({\overline {\lim } _{n \to \infty }}\sqrt[n]{{c_n^{S - gr}\left( A \right)}}\). If A/J(A) ≈ M ₂(F) and S is a right zero band, we show that this upper bound is sharp and PIexp ^S-gr(A) indeed exists. In particular, we present an infinite family of graded-simple algebras A with arbitrarily large non-integer PIexp ^S-gr(A).     

The Langlands classification for graded Hecke algebras

We establish the Langlands classification for graded Hecke algebras. The proof is analogous to the proof of the classification of highest weight modules for semisimple Lie algebras.

     

The graded structure of Leavitt path algebras

A Leavitt path algebra associates to a directed graph a ?-graded algebra and in its simplest form it recovers the Leavitt algebra L(1, k). In this note, we first study this ?-grading and characterize the (?-graded) structure of Leavitt path algebras, associated to finite acyclic graphs, C _n -comet, multi-headed graphs and a mixture of these graphs (i.e., polycephaly graphs). The last two types are examples of graphs whose Leavitt path algebras are strongly graded. We give a criterion when a Leavitt path algebra is strongly graded and in particular characterize unital Leavitt path algebras which are strongly graded completely, along the way obtaining classes of algebras which are group rings or crossed-products. In an attempt to generalize the grading, we introduce weighted Leavitt path algebras associated to directed weighted graphs which have natural ⊕?-grading and in their simplest form recover the Leavitt algebras L(n, k). We then show that the basic properties of Leavitt path algebras can be naturally carried over to weighted Leavitt path algebras.     

The spherical spectrum of a graded ring

We introduce a functor Sph, the spherical spectrum, which assigns to a graded ringG a space Sph(G) of homogeneous orderings ofG. It combines ideas of concrete geometry in theN-sphere defined by positively homogeneous polynomial equations and inequalities with the abstract notion of the real spectrum of a ring to give a counterpart for real semialgebraic geometry of the functor Proj.     

The centroid of extended affine and root graded Lie algebras

We develop general results on centroids of Lie algebras and apply them to determine the centroid of extended affine Lie algebras, loop-like and Kac-Moody Lie algebras, and Lie algebras graded by finite root systems.     

The elastic response for microlayered functionally graded media

In this note microlayered composites having continuously varying macroscopic properties are considered. Such composites are referred to as the functionally graded laminates (FGL). The aim of this contribution is to derive a new averaged model describing the elastic response of the FGL, using the modified tolerance averaging technique, developed for periodic composites and structures by Woźniak and Wierzbicki (2000). (© 2006 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

The graded Gelfand--Kirillov dimension of verbally prime algebras

Let E be the infinite-dimensional Grassmann algebra over a field F of characteristic 0. In this article, we consider the verbally prime algebras M _n (F), M _n (E) and M _a,b (E) endowed with their gradings induced by that of Vasilovsky, and we compute their graded Gelfand--Kirillov dimensions.     

The homogeneous spectrum of a graded commutative ring

Suppose is a torsion-free cancellative commutative monoid for which the group of quotients is finitely generated. We prove that the spectrum of a -graded commutative ring is Noetherian if its homogeneous spectrum is Noetherian, thus answering a question of David Rush. Suppose is a commutative ring having Noetherian spectrum. We determine conditions in order that the monoid ring have Noetherian spectrum. If , we show that has Noetherian spectrum, while for each we establish existence of an example where the homogeneous spectrum of is not Noetherian.