Claudiu Raicu
Department of Mathematics
University of Notre Dame
255 Hurley
Notre Dame, IN 46556
I am a Professor in the math department at University of Notre Dame. Previously I was an Instructor in the math department at Princeton University. During the Spring 2013 semester I was a post-doctoral fellow at MSRI. I received my Ph.D. in May 2011 from the math department at UC Berkeley. My advisor was David Eisenbud. My thesis was titled Secant Varieties of Segre-Veronese Varieties. I am interested in algebraic geometry, commutative algebra and their computational aspects. Here is my CV.
Papers
- On some modules supported in the Chow variety, with Steven V Sam and Jerzy Weyman (arXiv: 2108.10910)
The study of Chow varieties of decomposable forms lies at the confluence of algebraic geometry, commutative algebra, representation theory and combinatorics. There are many open questions about homological properties of Chow varieties and interesting classes of modules supported on them. The goal of this note is to survey some fundamental constructions and properties of these objects, and to propose some new directions of research. Our main focus will be on the study of certain maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules of covariants supported on Chow varieties, and on defining equations and syzygies. We also explain how to assemble Tor groups over Veronese subalgebras into modules over a Chow variety, leading to a result on the polynomial growth of these groups.
- Hermite reciprocity and Schwarzenberger bundles, with Steven V Sam (arXiv: 2106.04495)
Hermite reciprocity refers to a series of natural isomorphisms involving compositions of symmetric, exterior, and divided powers of the standard SL(2)-representation. We survey several equivalent constructions of these isomorphisms, as well as their recent applications to Green's Conjecture on syzygies of canonical curves. The most geometric approach to Hermite reciprocity is based on an idea of Voisin to realize certain multilinear constructions cohomologically by working on a Hilbert scheme of points. We explain how in the case of P^1 this can be reformulated in terms of cohomological properties of Schwarzenberger bundles. We then proceed to study these bundles from several perspectives: (1) We show that their exterior powers have supernatural cohomology, arising as special cases of a construction of Eisenbud and Schreyer; (2) We recover basic properties of secant varieties of rational normal curves (normality, Cohen-Macaulayness, rational singularities) by considering their desingularizations via Schwarzenberger bundles, and applying the Kempf-Weyman geometric technique; (3) We show that Hermite reciprocity is equivalent to the self-duality of the unique rank one Ulrich module on the affine cone of some secant variety, and we explain how for a Schwarzenberger bundle of rank k and degree d>=k, Hermite reciprocity can be viewed as the unique (up to scaling) non-zero section of Sym^k(E)(−d+k−1).
- Euler obstructions for the Lagrangian Grassmannian, with Paul LeVan (arXiv: 2105.08823)
We prove a case of a positivity conjecture of Mihalcea-Singh, concerned with the local Euler obstructions associated to the Schubert stratification of the Lagrangian Grassmannian LG(n,2n). Combined with work of Aluffi-Mihalcea-Schürmann-Su, this further implies the positivity of the Mather classes for Schubert varieties in LG(n,2n), which Mihalcea-Singh had verified for the other cominuscule spaces of classical Lie type. Building on the work of Boe and Fu, we give a positive recursion for the local Euler obstructions, and use it to show that they provide a positive count of admissible labelings of certain trees, analogous to the ones describing Kazhdan-Lusztig polynomials. Unlike in the case of the Grassmannians in types A and D, for LG(n,2n) the Euler obstructions e_{y,w} may vanish for certain pairs (y,w) with y <= w in the Bruhat order. Our combinatorial description allows us to classify all the pairs (y,w) for which e_{y,w}=0. Restricting to the big opposite cell in LG(n,2n), which is naturally identified with the space of n x n symmetric matrices, we recover the formulas for the local Euler obstructions associated with the matrix rank stratification.
- Local Euler obstructions for determinantal varieties, with András C. Lőrincz (arXiv: 2105.00271)
The goal of this note is to explain a derivation of the formulas for the local Euler obstructions of determinantal varieties of general, symmetric and skew-symmetric matrices, by studying the invariant de Rham complex and using character formulas for simple equivariant D-modules. These calculations are then combined with standard arguments involving Kashiwara's local index formula and the description of characteristic cycles
of simple equivariant D-modules. The formulas are implicit in the work of Boe and Fu, and in the case of general matrices they have also been obtained recently by Gaffney-Grulha-Ruas, for skew-symmetric matrices by Promtapan and Rimányi, and for all cases by Zhang.
- An equivariant Hochster’s formula for S_n-invariant monomial ideals, with Satoshi Murai (arXiv: 2012.13732)
Let R=K[x_1...x_n] be a polynomial ring over a field K and let I in R be a monomial ideal preserved by the natural action of the symmetric group S_n on R. We give a combinatorial method to determine the S_n-module structure of Tor_i(I,K). Our formula shows that Tor_i(I,K) is built from induced representations of tensor products of Specht modules associated to hook partitions, and their multiplicities are determined by topological Betti numbers of certain simplicial complexes. This result can be viewed as an S_n-equivariant analogue of Hochster's formula for Betti numbers of monomial ideals. We apply our results to determine extremal Betti numbers of S_n-invariant monomial ideals, and in particular recover formulas for their Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity and projective dimension. We also give a concrete recipe for how the Betti numbers change as we increase the number of variables, and in characteristic zero (or >n) we compute the S_n-invariant part of Tor_i(I,K) in terms of Tor groups of the unsymmetrization of I.
- Hodge ideals for the determinant hypersurface, with Michael Perlman (Selecta Mathematica, or arXiv: 2003.09874)
We determine explicitly the Hodge ideals for the determinant hypersurface as an intersection of symbolic powers of determinantal ideals. We prove our results by studying the Hodge and weight filtrations on the mixed Hodge module O_X(*Z) of regular functions on the space X of n x n matrices, with poles along the divisor Z of singular matrices. The composition factors for the weight filtration on O_X(*Z) are pure Hodge modules with underlying D-modules given by the simple GL-equivariant D-modules on X, where GL is the natural group of symmetries, acting by row and column operations on the matrix entries. By taking advantage of the GL-equivariance and the Cohen-Macaulay property of their associated graded, we describe explicitly the possible Hodge filtrations on a simple GL-equivariant D-module, which are unique up to a shift determined by the corresponding weights. For non-square matrices, O_X(*Z) is naturally replaced by the local cohomology modules H^j_Z(X,O_X), which turn out to be pure Hodge modules. By working out explicitly the Decomposition Theorem for some natural resolutions of singularities of determinantal varieties, and using the results on square matrices, we determine the weights and the Hodge filtration for these local cohomology modules.
- Relations between the 2x2 minors of a generic matrix, with Hang Huang, Michael Perlman, Claudia Polini, and Alessio Sammartano (arXiv: 1909.11705)
We prove a conjecture of Bruns-Conca-Varbaro, describing the minimal relations between the 2x2 minors of a generic matrix. Interpreting these relations as polynomial functors, and applying transpose duality as in the work of Sam-Snowden, this problem is equivalent to understanding the relations satisfied by 2x2 generalized permanents. Our proof follows by combining Koszul homology calculations on the minors side, with a study of subspace varieties on the permanents side, and with the Kempf-Weyman technique (on both sides).
- Bi-graded Koszul modules, K3 carpets, and Green's conjecture, with Steven V Sam (arXiv: 1909.09122)
We extend the theory of Koszul modules to the bi-graded case, and prove a vanishing theorem that allows us to show that the Canonical Ribbon Conjecture of Bayer and Eisenbud holds over a field of characteristic zero or at least equal to the Clifford index. Our results confirm a conjecture of Eisenbud and Schreyer regarding the characteristics where the generic statement of Green's conjecture holds. They also recover and extend to positive characteristics results due to Aprodu and Voisin asserting that Green's Conjecture holds for generic curves of each gonality.
- Regularity of S_n-invariant monomial ideals (J. Combin. Theory Ser. A 177, 105307, 34 pp, 2021, or arXiv: 1909.04650)
For a polynomial ring S in n variables, we consider the natural action of the symmetric group S_n on S by permuting the variables. For an S_n-invariant monomial ideal I in S and j >= 0, we give an explicit recipe for computing the modules Ext^j(S/I,S), and use this to describe the projective dimension and regularity of I. We classify the S_n-invariant monomial ideals that have a linear free resolution, and also characterize those which are Cohen-Macaulay. We then consider two settings for analyzing the asymptotic behavior of regularity: one where we look at powers of a fixed ideal I, and another where we vary the dimension of the ambient polynomial ring and examine the invariant monomial ideals induced by I. In the first case we determine the asymptotic regularity for those ideals I that are generated by the S_n-orbit of a single monomial by solving an integer linear optimization problem. In the second case we describe the behavior of regularity for any I, recovering a recent result of Murai.
- Feasibility criteria for high-multiplicity partitioning problems (arXiv: 1909.02155)
For fixed weights w_1,...,w_n, and for d>0, we let B denote a collection of d*n balls, with d balls of weight w_i for each i=1,...,n. We consider the problem of assigning the balls to n bins with capacities C_1,...,C_n, in such a way that each bin is assigned d balls, without exceeding its capacity. When d>>0, we give sufficient criteria for the feasibility of this problem, which coincide up to explicit constants with the natural set of necessary conditions. Furthermore, we show that our constants are optimal when the weights w_i are distinct. The feasibility criteria that we present here are used elsewhere (in commutative algebra) to study the asymptotic behavior of the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of symmetric monomial ideals.
- Koszul modules and Green’s conjecture, with Marian Aprodu, Gavril Farkas, Ştefan Papadima and Jerzy Weyman (Invent. Math. 218, Issue 3, 657—720, 2019, or arXiv: 1810.11635)
We prove a strong vanishing result for finite length Koszul modules, and use it to derive Green's conjecture for every g-cuspidal rational curve over an algebraically closed field k with char(k) = 0 or char(k) >= (g+2)/2. As a consequence, we deduce that the general canonical curve of genus g satisfies Green's conjecture in this range. Our results are new in positive characteristic, whereas in characteristic zero they provide a different proof for theorems first obtained in two landmark papers by Voisin. Our strategy involves establishing two key results of independent interest: (1) we describe an explicit, characteristic-independent version of Hermite reciprocity for sl_2-representations; (2) we completely characterize, in arbitrary characteristics, the (non-)vanishing behavior of the syzygies of the tangential variety to a rational normal curve.
- Syzygies of determinantal thickenings and representations of the general linear Lie superalgebra, with Jerzy Weyman (Acta Math. Vietnam. 44, no. 1, 269—284, 2019, or arXiv: 1808.05649)
We let S denote the ring of polynomial functions on the space of m x n matrices, and consider the action of the group GL = GL_m x GL_n via row and column operations on the matrix entries. For a GL-invariant ideal I in S we show that the linear strands of its minimal free resolution translate via the BGG correspondence to modules over the general linear Lie superalgebra gl(m|n). When I is the ideal generated by the GL-orbit of a highest weight vector, we give a conjectural description of the classes of these gl(m|n)-modules in the Grothendieck group, and prove that our prediction is correct for the first strand of the minimal free resolution.
- Topological invariants of groups and Koszul modules, with Marian Aprodu, Gavril Farkas, Ştefan Papadima and Jerzy Weyman (arXiv: 1806.01702)
We provide a uniform vanishing result for the graded components of the finite length Koszul module associated to a subspace K inside the second exterior product of a vector space, as well as a sharp upper bound for its Hilbert function. This purely algebraic statement has interesting applications to the study of a number of invariants associated to finitely generated groups, such as the Alexander invariants, the Chen ranks, or the degree of growth and nilpotency class. For instance, we explicitly bound the aforementioned invariants in terms of the first Betti number for the maximal metabelian quotients of (1) the Torelli group associated to the moduli space of curves; (2) nilpotent fundamental groups of compact Kaehler manifolds; (3) the Torelli group of a free group.
- Iterated local cohomology groups and Lyubeznik numbers for determinantal rings, with András C. Lőrincz (Algebra & Number Theory 14, no. 9:2533—2569, 2020, or arXiv: 1805.08895)
We give an explicit recipe for determining iterated local cohomology groups with support in ideals of minors of a generic matrix in characteristic zero, expressing them as direct sums of indecomposable D-modules. For non-square matrices these indecomposables are simple, but this is no longer true for square matrices where the relevant indecomposables arise from the pole order filtration associated with the determinant hypersurface. Specializing our results to a single iteration, we determine the Lyubeznik numbers for all generic determinantal rings, thus answering a question of Hochster.
- Equivariant D-modules on binary cubic forms, with András C. Lőrincz and Jerzy Weyman (Comm. Algebra 47, no. 6, 2457—2487, 2019, or arXiv: 1712.09932)
We consider the space X = Sym^3(C^2) of binary cubic forms, equipped with the natural action of the group GL_2 of invertible linear transformations of C^2. We describe explicitly the category of GL_2-equivariant coherent D_X-modules as the category of representations of a quiver with relations. We show moreover that this quiver is of tame representation type and we classify its indecomposable representations. We also give a construction of the simple equivariant D_X-modules (of which there are 14), and give formulas for the characters of their underlying GL_2-representations. We conclude the article with an explicit calculation of (iterated) local cohomology groups with supports given by orbit closures.
- Homological invariants of determinantal thickenings
(Bull. Math. Soc. Sci. Math. Roumanie, Volume 60 (108), no. 4:425—446, 2017, or arXiv: 1712.09938)
The study of homological invariants such as Tor, Ext and local cohomology modules constitutes an important direction in commutative algebra. Explicit descriptions of these invariants are notoriously difficult to find and often involve combining an array of techniques from other fields of mathematics. In recent years tools from algebraic geometry and representation theory have been successfully employed in order to shed some light on the structure of homological invariants associated with determinantal rings. The goal of this notes is to survey some of these results, focusing on examples in an attempt to clarify some of the more technical statements.
- On the (non-)vanishing of syzygies of Segre embeddings, with Luke Oeding and Steven V Sam (Algebraic Geometry 6 (5), 571—591, 2019, or arXiv: 1708.03803)
We analyze the vanishing and non-vanishing behavior of the graded Betti numbers for Segre embeddings of products of projective spaces. We give lower bounds for when each of the rows of the Betti table becomes non-zero, and prove that our bounds are tight for Segre embeddings of products of P^1. This generalizes results of Rubei concerning the Green-Lazarsfeld property N_p for Segre embeddings. Our methods combine the Kempf-Weyman geometric technique for computing syzygies, the Ein-Erman-Lazarsfeld approach to proving non-vanishing of Betti numbers, and the theory of algebras with straightening laws.
- Regularity and cohomology of determinantal thickenings
(Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society (3) 116, no. 2:248—280, 2018, or arXiv: 1611.00415)
We consider the ring S=C[x_ij] of polynomial functions on the vector space C^(m x n) of complex m x n matrices. We let GL= GL_m x GL_n and consider its action via row and column operations on C^(m x n) (and the induced action on S). For every GL-invariant ideal I in S and every j>=0, we describe the decomposition of the modules Ext^j_S(S/I,S) into irreducible GL-representations. For any inclusion I into J of GL-invariant ideals we determine the kernels and cokernels of the induced maps Ext^j_S(S/I,S) -> Ext^j_S(S/J,S). As a consequence of our work, we give a formula for the regularity of the powers and symbolic powers of generic determinantal ideals, and in particular we determine which powers have a linear minimal free resolution. As another consequence, we characterize the GL-invariant ideals I in S for which the induced maps Ext^j_S(S/I,S) -> H_I^j(S) are injective. In a different direction we verify that Kodaira vanishing, as described in work of Bhatt-Blickle-Lyubeznik-Singh-Zhang, holds for determinantal thickenings.
- Bernstein—Sato polynomials for maximal minors and sub-maximal Pfaffians, with András C. Lőrincz, Uli Walther, and Jerzy Weyman (Advances in Mathematics 307:224—252, 2017, or arXiv: 1601.06688)
We determine the Bernstein-Sato polynomials for the ideal of maximal minors of a generic m x n matrix, as well as for that of sub-maximal Pfaffians of a generic skew-symmetric matrix of odd size. As a corollary, we obtain that the Strong Monodromy Conjecture holds in these two cases.
- Local cohomology with support in ideals of symmetric minors and Pfaffians, with Jerzy Weyman (Journal of the London Mathematical Society (2) 94, no. 3:709—725, 2016, or arXiv: 1509.03954)
We compute the local cohomology modules H_Y^(X,O_X) in the case when X is the complex vector space of n x n symmetric, respectively skew-symmetric matrices, and Y is the closure of the GL-orbit consisting of matrices of any fixed rank. We describe the D-module composition factors of the local cohomology modules, and compute their multiplicities explicitly in terms of generalized binomial coefficients. One consequence of our work is a formula for the cohomological dimension of ideals of even minors of a generic symmetric matrix: in the case of odd minors, this was obtained by Barile in the 90s.
- Characters of equivariant D-modules on spaces of matrices
(Compositio Mathematica, Volume 152, Issue 9:1935—1965, 2016, or arXiv: 1507.06621)
We compute the characters of the simple GL-equivariant holonomic D-modules on the vector spaces of general, symmetric and skew-symmetric matrices. We realize some of these D-modules explicitly as subquotients in the pole order filtration associated to the determinant/Pfaffian of a generic matrix, and others as local cohomology modules. We give a direct proof of a conjecture of Levasseur in the case of general and skew-symmetric matrices, and provide counterexamples in the case of symmetric matrices. In subsequent joint work with Weyman, the character calculations will be used to describe the local cohomology modules with determinantal and Pfaffian support.
- Characters of equivariant D-modules on Veronese cones
(Transactions of the American Mathematical Society 369, no. 3: 2087—2108, 2017, or arXiv: 1412.8148)
For d > 1, we consider the Veronese map of degree d on a complex vector space W , Ver_d : W -> Sym^d W , w -> w^d , and denote its image by Z. We describe the characters of the simple GL(W)-equivariant holonomic D-modules supported on Z. In the case when d is 2, we obtain a counterexample to a conjecture of Levasseur by exhibiting a GL(W)-equivariant D-module on the Capelli type representation Sym^2 W which contains no SL(W)-invariant sections. We also study the local cohomology modules H_Z^j(S), where S is the ring of polynomial functions on the vector space Sym^d W. We recover a result of Ogus showing that there is only one local cohomology module that is non-zero (namely in degree j = codim(Z)), and moreover we prove that it is a simple D-module and determine its character.
- The syzygies of some thickenings of determinantal varieties, with Jerzy Weyman (Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 145:49—59, 2017, or arXiv: 1411.0151)
The vector space of m x n complex matrices (m >= n) admits a natural action of the group GL = GL_m x GL_n via row and column operations. For positive integers a,b, we consider the ideal I_{a x b} defined as the smallest GL-equivariant ideal containing the b-th powers of the a x a minors of the generic m x n matrix. We compute the syzygies of the ideals I_{a x b} for all a,b, together with their GL-equivariant structure.
- Representation stability for syzygies of line bundles on Segre-Veronese varieties,
(Journal of the
European Mathematical Society 18, no. 6:1201—1231, 2016, or arXiv: 1209.1183)
We prove that the multivariate version of the notion of representation stability introduced by Church and Farb holds for the syzygies of line bundles on Segre-Veronese varieties. We give bounds for when stabilization occurs and show that they are sometimes sharp by describing the linear syzygies for a family of line bundles on Segre varieties. To motivate our work, we show in an appendix that Ein and Lazarsfeld's conjecture on the asymptotic vanishing of syzygies of arbitrary varieties reduces to the case of a product of three projective spaces.
- Introduction to uniformity in commutative algebra, with Craig Huneke (Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications 67:163—190, Commutative Algebra and Noncommutative Algebraic
Geometry, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 2015, or arXiv: 1408.7098)
These notes are based on three lectures given by the first author as part of an introductory workshop at MSRI for the program in Commutative Algebra, 2012-13. The notes follow the talks, but there are extra comments and explanations, as well as a new section on the uniform Artin-Rees theorem. The notes deal with the theme of uniform bounds, both absolute and effective, as well as uniform annihilation of cohomology.
- Non-simplicial decompositions of Betti diagrams of complete intersections, with Courtney Gibbons, Jack Jeffries, Sarah Mayes, Branden Stone, and Bryan White
(Journal of Commutative Algebra 7, no. 2, 189-206, 2015, or
arXiv: 1301.3441)
We investigate decompositions of Betti diagrams into pure diagrams, in the framework of Boij-Söderberg theory over a standard graded polynomial ring. Relaxing the requirement that the degree sequences in such pure diagrams be totally ordered, we are able to obtain a simple expression of the decomposition of the Betti diagram of any complete intersection in terms of the degrees of its minimal generators.
- Local cohomology with support in generic determinantal ideals, with Jerzy Weyman (Algebra & Number Theory 8, no. 5: 1231-1257, 2014, or arXiv: 1309.0617)
For positive integers m >= n >= p, we compute the GL_m x GL_n-equivariant description of the local cohomology modules of the polynomial ring S of functions on the space of m x n matrices, with support in the ideal of p x p minors. Our techniques allow us to explicitly compute all the modules Ext_S(S/I_x,S), for x a partition and I_x the ideal generated by the irreducible sub-representation of S indexed by x, and in particular determine the regularity of the ideals I_x.
- Local cohomology with support in ideals of maximal minors and sub-maximal Pfaffians, with Jerzy Weyman and Emily Witt (Advances in Mathematics 250: 596-610, 2014, or arXiv: 1305.1719)
We compute the GL-equivariant description of the local cohomology modules with support in the ideal of maximal minors of a generic matrix, as well as of those with support in the ideal of 2n x 2n Pfaffians of a (2n + 1) x (2n + 1) generic skew-symmetric matrix. As an application, we characterize the Cohen-Macaulay modules of covariants for the action of the special linear group on a direct sum of copies of the standard representation.
- Products of Young symmetrizers and ideals in the generic tensor algebra
(Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics 39, no. 2: 247-270, 2014, or
arXiv: 1301.7511)
We describe a formula for computing the product of the Young symmetrizer of a Young tableau with the Young symmetrizer of a subtableau, generalizing the classical quasi-idempotence of Young symmetrizers. We derive some consequences to the structure of ideals in the generic tensor algebra and its partial symmetrizations. These consequences are essential in the proofs of the main results in Tangential Varieties of Segre-Veronese Varieties.
- Tangential Varieties of Segre-Veronese Varieties, with Luke Oeding,
(Collectanea Mathematica 65, no. 3:303-330, 2014, or
arXiv: 1111.6202)
We build on the techniques from Secant Varieties of Segre-Veronese Varieties and Products of Young symmetrizers and ideals in the generic tensor algebra, obtaining the description of the minimal generators of the ideal of the tangential variety of an arbitrary Segre-Veronese variety. In the special case of a Segre variety, this confirms a conjecture of Landsberg and Weyman.
- 3x3 Minors of Catalecticants,
(Mathematical Research Letters 20, no. 4: 745-756, 2013, or
arXiv: 1011.1564)
We answer a question of Geramita, by proving the equality of the ideals of 3x3 minors of the ``middle'' catalecticant matrices. This was predicted based on Macaulay's theorem on the growth of the Hilbert function of an Artin algebra, and was known to hold for the special case of Hankel matrices. The techniques we introduce give a new perspective on the problem of determining the ideals of secant varieties to Veronese varieties.
- Secant Varieties of Segre-Veronese Varieties,
(Algebra & Number Theory 6, no. 8: 1817-1868, 2012, or
arXiv: 1011.5867)
We prove a generalized version of a conjecture of Garcia, Stillman and Sturmfels, stating that the ideal of the first secant variety of a Segre-Veronese embedding of a product of projective spaces is generated by 3x3 minors of flattenings. We introduce techniques similar to the ones in 3x3 Minors of Catalecticants, providing a new strategy for analyzing the ideals and coordinate rings of secant varieties to Segre-Veronese varieties.
- Affine Toric Equivalence Relations are Effective,
(Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 138: 3835-3847, 2010, or
arXiv: 0905.4805)
We prove that if X is an affine toric variety, and R is an equivalence relation on X, preserved by the diagonal torus action, then R comes from a toric map X->Y. Moreover, if R is finite then there exists a geometric quotient X/R. We also show that the Amitsur complex associated to a map of monoid rings (defined at the monoid level) is exact. This gives a new class of ring extensions, besides the augmented and faithfully flat ones, for which the Amitsur complex has no nontrivial cohomology.
- Appendix to János Kollár, Quotients by Finite Equivalence Relations,
(Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Publications, 59, Current developments in algebraic geometry, 227-256, Cambridge Univ. Press, Cambridge, 2012, or arXiv: 0812.3608)
We answer a question of Kollár, by providing an example of a noneffective finite equivalence relation R on a two-dimensional affine space X. In other words, R is not constructed as the fiber product of X with itself over a finite base. We construct our example by employing an interesting relationship between equivalence relations and the cohomology of Amitsur complexes.
M2 code that verifies the assertions made in this appendix.
Reading Seminars
Macaulay2
With Michael K. Brown, Hang Huang, Robert P. Laudone, Michael Perlman, Steven V Sam, Joao Pedro Santos, we wrote the package SchurComplexes for computing Schur complexes. A short presentation of the package is available here.
With Mike Perlman, we wrote the package GLmnReps for computing with representations of the Lie superalgebra gl(m|n).
Here is the most up to date version (with documentation) of the Macaulay2 SchurRings package, developed jointly with Mike Stillman. Note that this code is not (yet) incorporated in Macaulay2. A short presentation of the package is available here.
I also wrote a package implementing the push forward functor for finite ring maps.
Posters and Slides
- Slides on local cohomology with support in determinantal ideals, from the SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, August 1-4, 2013 at Colorado State University, Fort Collins.
- Slides on tangential varieties of Segre-Veronese varieties, from the SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, August 1-4, 2013 at Colorado State University, Fort Collins.
- Slides on local cohomology modules with support in ideals of maximal minors and sub-maximal Pfaffians, from the Joint International Meeting of the American Mathematical Society and the Romanian Mathematical Society, June 27 - 30, 2013, Alba Iulia, Romania.
- Slides on secant varieties of Segre-Veronese varieties, from the SIAM Conference on Applied Algebraic Geometry, October 6-9, 2011 at North Carolina State University, Raleigh.
- Poster on the GSS conjecture, from WAGS, Nov 6-7, 2010 at University of Arizona, Tucson.
- Slides on finite equivalence relations, from the Eighth AMS-SMM International Meeting, June 4, 2010 at UC Berkeley.
- Poster on finite equivalence relations, from WAGS, May 1-2, 2010 at UBC, Vancouver.
Other writings
Notes compiled together with Enric Nart during the ``Computing Integral Closure'' Workshop at MSRI, July 2010.
Mathematics Research Communities report on Boij-Söderberg Theory in the nonstandard graded case, with B. Barwick, J. Biermann, D. Cook II, W. F. Moore and D. Stamate, Snowbird, June 2010.
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