Algebras defined by powers of determinantal ideals
Algebras defined by powers of determinantal ideals
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DOI:
10.1016/0021-8693(91)90222-t
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发表时间:
1991
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0.9
通讯作者:
W. Bruns
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作者:
W. Bruns
Let X be an m xn matrix of indeterminates over a field K, A= K [X], and I= Z,(X) the ideal generated by the t-minors of X. The main objects of this article are the Rees algebra 2= &Y,(A)=@ p”= 0 I’T’c A [T], T a new indeterminate, and the associated graded ring B= $(A)=@ t~ ozi/zi+ l= 6%/Z&%. The structures of &? and 3 are well-understood in (the simple case t= 1 and) for ideals of maximal minors: t= min (m, n), cf.[BV, Sect. 91 for a detailed discussion. Here we are mainly interested in the much more complicated situation 1< t< min (m, n). The key to our results is the primary decomposition of the powers I’determined by DeConcini, Eisenbud, and Procesi [DEP] for char K= 0 and extended to the situation char K> min (m-t, n-t, t) by Bruns and Vetter [BV]; these characteristics will be called non-exceptional. We show how this result generalizes to an arbitrary integral domain of coefficients: The intersection of primary ideals which gives I’in non-exceptional characteristics, always is the integral closure of I’. It follows immediately from the primary decomposition that the powers I’are integrally closed in non-exceptional characteristics. Therefore &! is a normal domain, and the primary decomposition of I.!% turns out easy, giving some insight into the structure of Y. An interesting observation: The primary decomposition of the ideals I’can be computed very quickly if one knows in advance that all these ideals are integrally closed. The best results are obtained in characteristic 0 since one has a multiplicity free action of the linearly reductive group GL (m, K) x GL (n, K) on K [X] under which Z is stable, cf.[DEP] or [BV, Sect. 111. Applying the theory of U-invariants (Kraft [Kr]) one shows that,! G $! has rational singularities, in particular &? and, hence, 9 are Cohen-Macaulay rings. We have no doubt that%! and 3 are Cohen-Macaulay in arbitrary non-exceptional characteristic. It seems however that in exceptional characteristic they are as far as possible from this property: The case t= 2 indicates that one has to expect depth 0 for Y and depth 1 for W. 150