Alexander duality has, in the past, made its way into commutative algebra through Stanley-Reisner rings of simplicial complexes. This has the disadvantage that one is limited to squarefree monomial ideals. The notion of Alexander duality is generalized here to arbitrary monomial ideals. It is shown how this duality is naturally expressed by Bass numbers, in their relations to the Betti numbers ...

A certain squarefree monomial ideal HP arising from a finite partially ordered set P will be studied from viewpoints of both commutative algbera and combinatorics. First, it is proved that the defining ideal of the Rees algebra of HP possesses a quadratic Gröbner basis. Thus in particular all powers of HP have linear resolutions. Second, the minimal free graded resolution of HP will be construc...

A certain squarefree monomial ideal HP arising from a finite partially ordered set P will be studied from viewpoints of both commutative algebra and combinatorics. First, it is proved that the defining ideal of the Rees algebra of HP possesses a quadratic Gröbner basis. Thus in particular all powers of HP have linear resolutions. Second, the minimal free graded resolution of HP will be construc...

We continue the study [2] on sheaves of rings on finite posets. We present examples where the ring of global sections coincide with toric faces rings, quotients of a polynomial ring by a monomial ideal and algebras with straightening laws. We prove a rank-selection theorem which generalizes the well-known rank-selection theorem of Stanley–Reisner rings. Finally, we determine an explicit present...

The Manin ring is a family of quadratic algebras describing pointed stable curves of genus zero whose homology gives the solution of the Commutativity Equations. This solution was first observed by the physicist Losev. We show the Manin ring is the Stanley–Reisner ring of the standard triangulation of the n-cube modulo a system of parameters. Thus, the Hilbert series of the Manin ring is given ...

Let ∆ be a simplicial complex and I∆ its Stanley–Reisner ideal. We write ∆ for the exterior algebraic shifted complex of ∆ and ∆ for a combinatorial shifted complex of ∆. It will be proved that for all i and j one has the inequalities βii+j(I∆e) ≤ βii+j(I∆c) on the graded Betti numbers of I∆e and I∆c . In addition, the bad behavior of graded Betti numbers of I∆c will be studied.

Consider the general n-gon with vertices at the points 1,2, . . . ,n. Then its suspension involves two more vertices, say at n+1 and n+2. Let R be the polynomial ring k[x1,x2, . . . ,xn], where k is any field. Then we can associate an ideal I to our suspension in the Stanley-Reisner sense. In this paper, we find a free minimal resolution and the Betti numbers of the R-module R/I.

In this paper, we study non-Cohen–Macaulay Buchsbaum Stanley– Reisner rings with linear free resolution. In particular, for given integers c, d, q with c ≥ 1, 2 ≤ q ≤ d, we give an upper bound hc,d,q on the dimension of the unique non-vanishing homology H̃q−2(∆; k) of a d-dimensional Buchsbaum ring k[∆] with q-linear resolution and codimension c. Also, we discuss about existence for such Buchsba...

Rings of differential operators are notoriously difficult to compute. This paper computes the ring of differential operators on a Stanley-Reisner ring R. The D-module structure of R is determined. This yields a new proof that Nakai’s conjecture holds for Stanley-Reisner rings. An application to tight closure is described. @ 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. AMS Clas.@cation: Prima...

Unprojection theory analyzes and constructs complicated commutative rings in terms of simpler ones. Our main result is that, on the algebraic level of Stanley-Reisner rings, stellar subdivisions of Gorenstein* simplicial complexes correspond to unprojections of type Kustin-Miller. As an application of our methods we study the minimal resolution of Stanley– Reisner rings associated to stacked po...