Let (S,≤) be a strictly totally ordered monoid, R be a commutative ring and M be an R-module. We show the following results: (1) If (S,≤) satisfies the condition that 0 ≤ s for all s ∈ S, then the module [[MS,≤]] of generalized power series is a semi Hopfian [[RS,≤]]-module if and only if M is a semi Hopfian R-module; (2) If (S,≤) is artinian, then the generalized inverse polynomial module [MS,...

A toric face ring, which generalizes both Stanley-Reisner rings and affine semigroup rings, is studied by Bruns, Römer and their coauthors recently. In this paper, under the “normality” assumption, we describe a dualizing complex of a toric face ring R in a very concise way. Since R is not a graded ring in general, the proof is not straightforward. We also develop the squarefree module theory o...

Generic modules have been introduced by Crawley-Boevey in order to provide a better understanding of nite dimensional algebras of tame representation type. In fact he has shown that the generic modules correspond to the one-parameter families of indecomposable nite dimensional modules over a tame algebra 5]. The Second Brauer-Thrall Conjecture provides another reason to study generic modules be...

Let Λ be a quasi k-Gorenstein ring. For each dth syzygy module M in mod Λ (where 0 ≤ d ≤ k − 1), we obtain an exact sequence 0 → B → M ⊕ P → C → 0 in mod Λ with the properties that it is dual exact, P is projective, C is a (d + 1)st syzygy module, B is a dth syzygy of Ext Λ (D(M),Λ) and the right projective dimension of B ∗ is less than or equal to d − 1. We then give some applications of such ...

known as the left big finitistic projective dimension of A, is finite. Here pdM denotes the projective dimension of M . Unfortunately, this number is not known to be finite even if A is a finite dimensional algebra over a field, where, indeed, its finiteness is a celebrated conjecture. On the other hand, for such an algebra, finite flat certainly implies finite projective dimension, simply beca...

Given an additive equational category with a closed symmetric monoidal structure and a potential dualizing object, we find sufficient conditions that the category of topological objects over that category has a good notion of full subcategories of strong and weakly topologized objects and show that each is equivalent to the chu category of the original category with respect to the dualizing obj...

This paper describes the historical background and motivation involved in the discovery (or invention) of Chu categories. In 1975, I began a sabbatical leave at the ETH in Zürich, with the idea of studying duality in categories in some depth. By this, I meant not such things as the duality between Boolean algebras and Stone spaces, nor between compact and discrete abelian groups, but rather sel...

Regulatory modules are sets of co-regulated genes that carry out common functions. A large body of research exists about methods that aim to identify these modules, and this is the first step towards understanding the cellular responses to signals. Its well known that each of the current datasets e.g. microarrays, dna-binding and sequence datasets provide a partial picture of the regulation pro...

This paper is devoted to some fundumental calculation on 2-dimensional smoothable semi-log-terminal singularities. If we study minimal or canonical models of one parameter degeneration of algebraic surfaces, we must treat singularities that appear in the central fiber. Smoothable semi-log-terminal singularities are the singularities of the central fiber of the minimal model of degeneration, and...