NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY
MATHEMATICS DEPARTMENT
 
Geometry-Algebra-Singularities-Combinatorics 
Seminar
 
 
On the Rees algebra of certain codimension 2 perfect ideals 
 
 

Ha Huy Tái

(Queens University)
 
 

Northeastern University

509 Lake Hall

1:30 p.m., Tuesday, January 25, 2000

 
 
Abstract: Let I be the defining ideal of a set of points in P^2. Generally, not too much is known about the Rees algebra of I, but certain pieces of it are always describable and appear to be "nice". In this talk, I will look at the pieces of the Rees algebra of I, which are the Rees algebras of the ideals generated by homogeneous pieces of I, and discuss their asymptotic behaviour. More precisely, I will show that when the degree of the homogeneous pieces of I are big enough, these Rees algebras are always Cohen-Macaulay, and if we take the degrees to be even bigger, these Rees algebra stay Cohen-Macaulay and are generated by quadratics. I will also make some conjecture about the resolution of these Rees algebras. The same argument can be extended to a class of certain codimension two perfect ideals.  
 
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