Rings of invariants can have nice homological properties even if they do not have finite global dimension. Watanabe’s Theorem [W] gives conditions when the fixed subring of a commutative ring under the action of a finite group is a Gorenstein ring. The Gorenstein condition was extended to noncommutative rings by a condition explored by Idun Reiten in the 1970s, called k-Gorenstein in [FGR]. Thi...

Zaks (1969) proved that the answer is affirmative for a left and right noetherian ring if both dimensions are finite. Such rings are called Gorenstein. For a positive integer k, Auslander and Reiten (1994) initiated the study of k-Gorenstein algebras, which has stimulated several investigations. They showed that the answer to the question above is positive in case is an artin -Gorenstein algebr...

In this article we report on extensive calculations concerning the Gorenstein defect for Hecke algebras of spaces of modular forms of prime weight p at maximal ideals of residue characteristic p such that the attached mod p Galois representation is unramified at p and the Frobenius at p acts by scalars. The results lead us to the ask the question whether the Gorenstein defect and the multiplici...

This paper discusses free-choice like effects in generics. Just as Jane may drink coffee or tea can be used to convey Jane may drink coffee and Jane may drink tea (she is “free to choose”), some generics with disjunctive predicates can be used to convey conjunctions of simpler generics: elephants live in Africa or Asia can be used to convey elephants live in Africa and elephants live in Asia. I...

This is a survey article on Gorenstein initial complexes of extensively studied ideals in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. These include defining ideals of Segre and Veronese varieties, toric deformations of flag varieties known as Hibi ideals, determinantal ideals of generic matrices of indeterminates, and ideals generated by Pfaffians of generic skew symmetric matrices. We give a s...

Let (R,m, k) be a noetherian local ring. It is well-known that R is regular if and only if the injective dimension of k is finite. In this paper it is shown that R is Gorenstein if and only if the Gorenstein injective dimension of k is finite. On the other hand a generalized version of the so-called Bass formula is proved for finitely generated modules of finite Gorenstein injective dimension. ...