Let (R,m) be a local Noetherian ring, let I ⊂ R be any ideal and let M be a finitely generated R-module. It has been long conjectured that the local cohomology modules H I(M) have finitely many associated primes for all i (see Conjecture 5.1 in [H] and [L].) If R is not required to be local these sets of associated primes may be infinite, as shown by Anurag Singh in [S], where he constructed an...

We explicitly compute the first and second cohomology groups of the classical Lie superalgebras slm|n and osp2|2n with coefficients in the finite dimensional irreducible modules and the Kac modules. We also show that the second cohomology groups of these Lie superalgebras with coefficients in the respective universal enveloping algebras (under the adjoint action) vanish. The latter result in pa...

Introduction 2 1. A Guide to Duality 3 1.1. Local Duality 3 1.2. Dualizing Complexes and Some Vanishing Theorems 10 1.3. Cohomological Annihilators 17 2. A Few Applications of Local Cohomology 21 2.1. On Ideal Topologies 21 2.2. On Ideal Transforms 25 2.3. Asymptotic Prime Divisors 28 2.4. The Lichtenbaum-Hartshorne Vanishing Theorem 35 2.5. Connectedness results 37 3. Local Cohomology and Syzy...