Vanishing of (co)homology, freeness criteria, and the Auslander-Reiten conjecture for Cohen-Macaulay Burch rings

We establish new results on (co)homology vanishing and Ext-Tor dualities, and derive a number of freeness criteria for finite modules over Cohen-Macaulay local rings. In the main application, we settle the long-standing Auslander-Reiten conjecture for the class of Cohen-Macaulay Burch rings, among other results toward this and related problems, e.g., the Tachikawa and Huneke-Wiegand conjectures. We also derive results on further topics of interest such as Cohen-Macaulayness of tensor products and Tor-independence, and inspired by a paper of Huneke and Leuschke we obtain characterizations of when a local ring is regular, or a complete intersection, or Gorenstein; for the regular case, we describe progress on some classical differential problems, e.g., the strong version of the Zariski-Lipman conjecture. Along the way, we generalize several results from the literature and propose various questions.Comment: 25 pages. Submitted for publicatio

Dao's question on the asymptotic behaviour of fullness

For a local ring (R, \M) of infinite residue field and positive depth, we address the question raised by H. Dao on how to control the asymptotic behaviour of the \M-full, full, and weakly \M-full properties of certain ideals (such notions were first investigated by D. Rees and J. Watanabe), by means of bounding appropriate numbers which express such behaviour. We establish upper bounds, and in certain cases even formulas for such invariants. The main tools used in our results are reduction numbers along with Ratliff-Rush closure of ideals, and also the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of the Rees algebra of \M.Comment: 11 pages. Submitted for publicatio

Tensor products and solutions to two homological conjectures for Ulrich modules

We address the problem of when the tensor product of two finitely generated modules over a Cohen-Macaulay local ring is Ulrich in the generalized sense of Goto et al., and in particular in the original sense from the 80's. As applications, besides freeness criteria for modules, characterizations of complete intersections, and an Ulrich-based approach to the long-standing Berger's conjecture, we show that two celebrated homological conjectures, namely the Auslander-Reiten and the Huneke-Wiegand problems, are true for the class of Ulrich modules.Comment: 12 page

A family of reflexive vector bundles of reduction number one

A difficult issue in modern commutative algebra asks for examples of modules (more interestingly, reflexive vector bundles) having prescribed reduction number $r\geq 1$. The problem is even subtler if in addition we are interested in good properties for the Rees algebra. In this note we consider the case $r=1$. Precisely, we show that the module of logarithmic vector fields of the Fermat divisor of any degree in projective $3$-space is a reflexive vector bundle of reduction number $1$ and Gorenstein Rees ring

Vector fields and a family of linear type modules related to free divisors

AbstractThis paper has three main goals. We start describing a method for computing the polynomial vector fields tangent to a given algebraic variety; this is of interest, for instance, in view of (effective) foliation theory. We then pass to furnishing a family of modules of linear type (that is, the Rees algebra equals the symmetric algebra), formed with vector fields related to suitable pairs of algebraic varieties, one of them being a free divisor in the sense of K. Saito. Finally, we derive freeness criteria for modules retaining a certain tangency feature, so that, in particular, well-known criteria for free divisors are recovered

Generalized local duality, canonical modules, and prescribed bound on projective dimension

We present various approaches to J. Herzog's theory of generalized local cohomology and explore its main aspects, e.g., (non-)vanishing results as well as a general local duality theorem which extends, to a much broader class of rings, previous results by Herzog-Zamani and Suzuki. As an application, we establish a prescribed upper bound for the projective dimension of a module satisfying suitable cohomological conditions, and we derive some freeness criteria and questions of Auslander-Reiten type. Along the way, we prove a new characterization of Cohen-Macaulay modules which truly relies on generalized local cohomology, and in addition we introduce and study a generalization of the notion of canonical module.Comment: Final version, to appear in J. Pure Appl. Algebr