Originality of thought and method in West African Islamic teaching: a Fulfulde example

African Studies Center Working Paper No. 3

On superheight conditions for the affineness of open subsets

In this paper we consider the open complement U of a hypersurface Y=V(a) in an affine scheme X. We study the relations between the affineness of U, the intersection of Y with closed subschemes, the property that every closed surface in U is affine, the property that every analytic closed surface is Stein and the superheight of the defining ideal a.Comment: 20 page

Tight closure and plus closure in dimension two

We prove that the tight closure and the graded plus closure of a homogeneous ideal coincide for a two-dimensional N-graded domain of finite type over the algebraic closure of a finite field. This answers in this case a ``tantalizing question'' of Hochster.Comment: Some minor changes. To appear in Amer. J. of Mat