Gorenstein algebras and the Cayley-Bacharach theorem
Gorenstein algebras and the Cayley-Bacharach theorem
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Gorenstein 代数和 Cayley-Bacharach 定理
DOI:
10.1090/s0002-9939-1985-0776185-6
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发表时间:
1985
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0.9
通讯作者:
F. Orecchia
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作者:
E. Davis;A. Geramita;F. Orecchia
This paper is an examination of the connection between the classical Cayley-Bacharach theorem for complete intersections in p2 and properties of graded Gorenstein algebras. Introduction. It is known, if not well known, that the Cayley-Bacharach theorem for complete intersections in p2 is valid for 0-dimensional arithmetically Gorenstein subschemes of P'. More generally, we show that the result is valid for 0-dimensional subschemes of P' having minimal Cohen-Macaulay type compatible with their Hilbert functions. The Cayley-Bacharach theorem in the Gorenstein case is a special instance of a theorem, interesting and technically useful in its own right, relating the Hilbert functions of linked subschemes of P'. Lastly we show that the 0-dimensional, arithmetically Gorenstein, reduced subschemes of Pn are characterized by the validity of the Cayley-Bacharach theorem and the symmetry of the Hilbert function. Fixed notation. A denotes a standard N-graded k-algebra, k a field: AO= k; A = k[AI]; X (A1) < ox. We use X to denote k-linear dimension, reserving "dim" for dimension of rings or schemes, and 8 to denote multiplicity for such algebras (or degree of the corresponding projective scheme). Note that 8(A) = X(A) if dim A = 0. We use I to denote a nonzero, nonunit, homogeneous ideal of A, and J = ann I ("ann" = annihilator). We assume always that A and A/I are CM (Cohen-Macaulay) and that Ass(A/I) c Ass(A). Hence Ass(A/J) c Ass(A). (Indeed, since the 0-ideal of A is unmixed of height 0, so is the annihilator of any nonzero ideal of A.) Therefore A/J is CM if dim A < 1. In any case, A/J is CM if A is Gorenstein [PS, Proposition 1.3]. In our applications A/J will be CM for one of these two reasons. Recall that, by definition, a ring R is Gorenstein provided that RI is a Gorenstein local ring for every prime idealA, of R, and A is Gorenstein <* AA,A is a Gorenstein local ring [AG]. We refer to [K] for those properties of Gorenstein local rings which are used below without specific reference. 1. OBSERVATIONS. Assume that Al is Gorenstein for all, EAss(A)). Then: (a) 8(A) = S(A/I) + S(A/J). Received by the editors January 3, 1984. 1980 Mathemnatics Subject Classification. Primary 13H10, 14N10.