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On the Cohen-Macaulayness of the conormal module of an ideal
In the present paper we investigate a question stemming from a long-standing
conjecture of Vasconcelos: given a generically a complete intersection perfect
ideal I in a regular local ring R, is it true that if I/I^2 (or R/I^2) is
Cohen-Macaulay then R/I is Gorenstein? Huneke and Ulrich, Minh and Trung, Trung
and Tuan and - very recently - Rinaldo Terai and Yoshida, already considered
this question and gave a positive answer for special classes of ideals. We give
a positive answer for some classes of ideals, however, we also exhibit prime
ideals in regular local rings and homogeneous level ideals in polynomial rings
showing that in general the answer is negative. The homogeneous examples have
been found thanks to the help of J. C. Migliore. Furthermore, the
counterexamples show the sharpness of our main result. As a by-product, we
exhibit several classes of Cohen-Macaulay ideals whose square is not
Cohen-Macaulay. Our methods work both in the homogeneous and in the local
settings.Comment: 24 pages. Added a few reference
Generalized stretched ideals and Sally Conjecture
We introduce the concept of -stretched ideals in a Noetherian local ring.
This notion generalizes to arbitrary ideals the classical notion of stretched
-primary ideals of Sally and Rossi-Valla, as well as the concept
of ideals of minimal and almost minimal -multiplicity introduced by
Polini-Xie. One of our main theorems states that, for a -stretched ideal,
the associated graded ring is Cohen-Macaulay if and only if two classical
invariants of the ideal, the reduction number and the index of nilpotency, are
equal. Our second main theorem, presenting numerical conditions which ensure
the almost Cohen-Macaulayness of the associated graded ring of a -stretched
ideal, provides a generalized version of Sally's conjecture. This work, which
also holds for modules, unifies the approaches of Rossi-Valla and Polini-Xie
and generalizes simultaneously results on the Cohen-Macaulayness or almost
Cohen-Macaulayness of the associated graded module by several authors,
including Sally, Rossi-Valla, Wang, Elias, Corso-Polini-Vaz Pinto, Huckaba,
Marley and Polini-Xie.Comment: 25 pages (modified the presentation of the material and added
examples). Comments are welcom
Towards sustainable transport: wireless detection of passenger trips on public transport buses
An important problem in creating efficient public transport is obtaining data
about the set of trips that passengers make, usually referred to as an
Origin/Destination (OD) matrix. Obtaining this data is problematic and
expensive in general, especially in the case of buses because on-board
ticketing systems do not record where and when passengers get off a bus. In
this paper we describe a novel and inexpensive system that uses off-the-shelf
Bluetooth hardware to accurately record passenger journeys. Here we show how
our system can be used to derive passenger OD matrices, and additionally we
show how our data can be used to further improve public transport services.Comment: 13 pages, 4 figures, 1 tabl
A multiplicity bound for graded rings and a criterion for the Cohen-Macaulay property
Let be a polynomial ring over a field. We prove an upper bound for the
multiplicity of when is a homogeneous ideal of the form ,
where is a Cohen-Macaulay ideal and . The bound is given in
terms of two invariants of and the degree of . We show that ideals
achieving this upper bound have high depth, and provide a purely numerical
criterion for the Cohen-Macaulay property. Applications to quasi-Gorenstein
rings and almost complete intersections are given.Comment: 14 pages, comments are welcom
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