Abstract. Given arbitrary integers k and d with 0 ≤ 2k ≤ d, we construct a Gorenstein Fano polytope P ⊂ R of dimension d such that (i) its Ehrhart polynomial i(P , n) possesses d distinct roots; (ii) i(P , n) possesses exactly 2k imaginary roots; (iii) i(P , n) possesses exactly d − 2k real roots; (iv) the real part of each of the imaginary roots is equal to −1/2; (v) all of the real roots belo...

Batyrev has defined the stringy E-function for complex varieties with at most log terminal singularities. It is a rational function in two variables if the singularities are Gorenstein. Furthermore, if the variety is projective and its stringy E-function is a polynomial, Batyrev defined its stringy Hodge numbers essentially as the coefficients of this E-function, generalizing the usual notion o...

We define the concept of a doset Hibi ring and a generalized doset Hibi ring which are subrings of a Hibi ring and are normal affine semigrouprings. We apply the theory of (generalized) doset Hibi rings to analyze the rings of absolute orthogonal invariants and special orthogonal invariants and show that these rings are normal and CohenMacaulay and has rational singularities if the characterist...

We present our recent understanding on resolutions of Gorenstein orbifolds, which involves the finite group representation theory. We concern only the quotient singularity of hypersurface type. The abelian group Ar (n) for A-type hypersurface quotient singularity of dimension n is introduced. For n = 4, the structure of Hilbert scheme of group orbits and crepant resolutions of Ar (4)-singularit...

We examine the projective dimensions of Mackey functors and cohomological Mackey functors. We show over a field of characteristic p that cohomological Mackey functors are Gorenstein if and only if Sylow p-subgroups are cyclic or dihedral, and they have finite global dimension if and only if the group order is invertible or Sylow subgroups are cyclic of order 2. By contrast, we show that the onl...

By a symplectic manifold (or a symplectic n-fold) we mean a compact Kaehler manifold of even dimension n with a non-degenerate holomorphic 2form ω, i.e. ω is a nowhere-vanishing n-form. This notion is generalized to a variety with singularities. We call X a projective symplectic variety if X is a normal projective variety with rational Gorenstein singularities and if the regular locus U of X ad...

Gorenstein rings are important to mathematical areas as diverse as algebraic geometry, where they encode information about singularities of spaces, and homotopy theory, through the concept of model categories. In consequence, the study of Gorenstein rings has led to the advent of a whole branch of homological algebra, known as Gorenstein homological algebra. This paper solves one of the open pr...

Let be a commutative Noetherian ring and let I be a proper ideal of . D’Anna and Fontana in [6] introduced a new construction of ring,  named amalgamated duplication of along I. In this paper by considering the ring homomorphism , it is shown that if , then , also it is proved that if , then there exists  such that . Using this result it is shown that if is generically Cohen-Macaulay (resp. gen...