Two formulas for the multiplicity of the fiber cone F (I) = ⊕∞n=0I /mI of an m-primary ideal of a d-dimensional Cohen-Macaulay local ring (R,m) are derived in terms of the mixed multiplicity ed−1(m|I), the multiplicity e(I) and superficial elements. As a consequence, the Cohen-Macaulay property of F (I) when I has minimal mixed multiplicity or almost minimal mixed multiplicity is characterized ...

In this paper, we introduce the notion of “extension” of a toric variety and study its fundamental properties. This gives rise to infinitely many toric varieties with a special property, such as being set theoretic complete intersection or arithmetically Cohen-Macaulay (Gorenstein) and having a Cohen-Macaulay tangent cone or a local ring with non-decreasing Hilbert function, from just one singl...

In this paper we study Cohen-Macaulay local rings of dimension d, multiplicity e and second Hilbert coefficient e2 in the case e2=e1−e+1. Let h=μ(m)−d. If e2≠0 then our can prove that type(A)≥e−h−1. type(A)=e−h−1 show associated graded ring G(A) is Cohen-Macaulay. next when type(A)=e−h determine all possible series A. depthG(A) completely determines Series

We consider a commutative ring R graded by an arbitrary abelian group G, and define the grade of a G-homogeneous ideal I on R in terms of vanishing of C̆ech cohomology. By defining the dimension in terms of chains of homogeneous prime ideals and supposing R satisfies a.c.c. on G-homogeneous ideals and has a unique G-homogeneous maximal ideal, we can define graded versions of the depth of R and C...

This research began as an effort to determine exactly which one-dimensional local rings have indecomposable finitely generated modules of arbitrarily large constant rank. The approach, which uses a new construction of indecomposable modules via the bimodule structure on certain Ext groups, turned out to be effective mainly for hypersurface singularities. The argument was eventually replaced by ...

In an earlier work the authors described a mechanism for lifting monomial ideals to reduced unions of linear varieties. When the monomial ideal is Cohen-Macaulay (including Artinian), the corresponding union of linear varieties is arithmetically CohenMacaulay. The first main result of this paper is that if the monomial ideal is Artinian then the corresponding union is in the Gorenstein linkage ...

We classify the tangential varieties of Segre–Veronese which are Cohen–Macaulay or Gorenstein.

We settle the negativity conjecture of Vasconcelos for the Chern number of an ideal in certain unmixed quotients of regular local rings by explicit calculation of the Hilbert polynomials of all ideals generated by systems of parameters. Introduction Let I be an m-primary ideal in a local ring (R,m) of dimension d. Let H(I, n) = λ(R/I) denote the Hilbert function of I where λ(M) denotes the leng...