MATH 735: Toric Rings and Resolutions (spring
2008)
Instructor: Irena Peeva
Meeting Time & Room
The structure of a finitely generated R-module (where R is a polynomial
ring or a quotient of a polynomial ring) can be described by a free resolution.
This idea was introduced by Hilbert in two of his papers. In essence,
constructing a free resolution consists of solving systems of R-linear
equations.
Most of the lectures will be on resolutions related to toric
varieties.
Time
permitting, we will also cover some of the following topics: resolutions
over complete intersections, resolutions over Artinian or Goerenstein
rings.
Many open problems and conjectures will be discussed.
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