Codes associated to the zero-schemes of sections of vector bundles

We consider the algebraic geometric codes associated to the zero-schemes of sections of vector bundles on a smooth projective variety. We give lower bounds for the minimum distances of the codes exploiting the Cayley–Bacharach property of zero-dimensional subschemes.     

Betti numbers and degree bounds for some linked zero-schemes

In [J. Herzog, H. Srinivasan, Bounds for multiplicities, Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 350 (1998) 2879-2902], Herzog and Srinivasan study the relationship between the graded Betti numbers of a homogeneous ideal I in a polynomial ring R and the degree of I. For certain classes of ideals, they prove a bound on the degree in terms of the largest and smallest Betti numbers, generalizing results of Huneke and Miller in [C. Huneke, M. Miller, A note on the multiplicity of Cohen-Macaulay algebras with pure resolutions, Canad. J. Math. 37 (1985) 1149-1162]. The bound is conjectured to hold in general; we study this using linkage. If R/I is Cohen-Macaulay, we may reduce to the case where I defines a zero-dimensional subscheme Y. If Y is residual to a zero-scheme Z of a certain type (low degree or points in special position), then we show that the conjecture is true for I_Y.     

The subregular variety to the variety of special lattices

We recall the basic geometric properties of the full lattice variety, the projective variety parametrizing special lattices over Witt vectors which was introduced in Haboush (2005) [6]. It is an analog in unequal characteristic, of a certain Schubert variety in the affine Grassmannian for , and it is normal and a locally complete intersection (Haboush and Sano, submitted for publication [7], Sano (2004) [15]). In this paper, I prove that the complement of its smooth locus, the subregular variety in it, is also normal and a locally complete intersection. The result is analogous to the geometry of the subregular subvariety of the nilpotent cone.     

The index of an algebraic variety

Let K be the field of fractions of a Henselian discrete valuation ring  ${{\mathcal {O}}_{K}}$ . Let X _K /K be a smooth proper geometrically connected scheme admitting a regular model $X/{{\mathcal {O}}_{K}}$ . We show that the index δ(X _K /K) of X _K /K can be explicitly computed using data pertaining only to the special fiber X _k /k of the model X. We give two proofs of this theorem, using two moving lemmas. One moving lemma pertains to horizontal 1-cycles on a regular projective scheme X over the spectrum of a semi-local Dedekind domain, and the second moving lemma can be applied to 0-cycles on an $\operatorname {FA} $ -scheme X which need not be regular. The study of the local algebra needed to prove these moving lemmas led us to introduce an invariant γ(A) of a singular local ring $(A, {\mathfrak {m}})$ : the greatest common divisor of all the Hilbert-Samuel multiplicities e(Q,A), over all ${\mathfrak {m}}$ -primary ideals Q in ${\mathfrak {m}}$ . We relate this invariant γ(A) to the index of the exceptional divisor in a resolution of the singularity of $\operatorname {Spec}A$ , and we give a new way of computing the index of a smooth subvariety X/K of ${\mathbb{P}}^{n}_{K}$ over any field K, using the invariant γ of the local ring at the vertex of a cone over X.     

The degree of a Schubert variety

We study integration along Bott-Samelson cycles. As an application the degree of a Schubert variety on a flag manifold G/B is evaluated in terms of certain Cartan numbers of G.     

The greedy coloring is a bad probabilistic algorithm

Given a graph G and an ordering p of its vertices, denote by A(G, p) the number of colors used by the greedy coloring algorithm when applied to G with vertices ordered by p. Let , , Δ be positive constants. It is proved that for each n there is a graph G_n such that the chromatic number of G_n is at most n, but the probability that A(G_n, p) < (1 − )n/log₂ n for a randomly chosen ordering p is O(n^−Δ).     

The associated variety of an induced representation

This paper studies the behavior of the associated variety under induction from real parabolic subgroups. We derive a formula for the associated variety of an induced module which is analogous to the formula for the wave front set of a derived functor module obtained by Barbasch and Vogan.

     

The weak hereditary class of a variety

We study the weak hereditary class S _w ( ) of all weak subalgebras of algebras in a total variety }. We establish an algebraic characterization, in the sense of Birkhoff’s HSP theorem, and a syntactical characterization of these classes. We also consider the problem of when such a weak hereditary class is weak equational.     

The variety generated by equivalence algebras

Every equivalence relation can be made into a groupoid with the same underlying set if we define the multiplication as follows: xy = x if x,y are related; otherwise, xy = y. The groupoids, obtained in this way, are called equivalence algebras. We find a finite base for the equations of equivalence algebras. The base consists of equations in four variables, and we prove that there is no base consisting of equations in three variables only. We also prove that all subdirectly irreducibles in the variety generated by equivalence algebras are embeddable into the three-element equivalence algebra, corresponding to the equivalence with two blocks on three elements. Received September 21, 1998; accepted in final form May 11, 1999.     

The essentially free spectrum of a variety

We partially prove a conjecture from [MeSh] which says that the spectrum of almost free, essentially free non-free algebras in a variety is either empty or consists of the class of all successor cardinals. The author was supported by the NSERC. Prof. Mekler died on June 10, 1992. The author is supported by the United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation; publication 417. The author is supported by the Schweizer Nationalfonds.