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The Alexander Duality Functors and Local Duality with Monomial Support

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Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2000
Tongue
English
Weight
375 KB
Volume
231
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-8693

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✦ Synopsis


Alexander duality is made into a functor which extends the notion for monomial ideals to any finitely generated ‫ގ‬ n -graded module. The functors associated with Alexander duality provide a duality on the level of free and injective resolutions, and numerous Bass and Betti number relations result as corollaries. A minimal injective resolution of a module M is equivalent to the injective resolution of its Alexander dual and contains all of the maps in the minimal free resolution of M over every ‫ޚ‬ n -graded localization. Results are obtained on the interaction of duality for resolutions with cellular resolutions and lcm-lattices. Using injective resolutions, theorems of Eagon, Reiner, and Terai are generalized to all ‫ގ‬ n -graded modules: the projective dimension of M equals the support-regularity of its Alexander dual, and M is Cohen᎐Macaulay if and only if its Alexander dual has a support-linear free resolution. Alexander duality is applied in the context of the n i Ž . ‫ޚ‬ -graded local cohomology functors H y for squarefree monomial ideals I in I the polynomial ring S, proving a duality directly generalizing local duality, which is the case when I s ᒊ is maximal. In the process, a new flat complex for calculating local cohomology at monomial ideals is introduced, showing, as a consequence, i Ž .