Irena Peeva

Professor of Mathematics

547 Malott Hall

(607) 255-4365
irena@math.cornell.edu

Ph.D. (1995) Brandeis University

Research Area

Commutative algebra

My research interests are in commutative algebra and its connections to algebraic geometry, combinatorics, subspace arrangements, and noncommutative algebra.

Some of my research is focused on the structure of free resolutions and their applications. The study of resolutions is a beautiful and core area in commutative algebra with several challenging conjectures. The idea to associate a free resolution to a module was introduced in Hilbert's famous 1890,1893-papers. Resolutions provide a method for describing the structure of modules.

Selected Publications

Complete intersection dimension (with L. Avramov and V. Gasharov), Publications Mathematiques IHES 86 (1997), 67–114.

Generic lattice ideals (with B. Sturmfels), J. American Mathematical Society 11 (1998), 363–373.

Deformations of codimension 2 toric varieties (with V. Gasharov), Compositio Mathematica 123 (2000), 225–241.

Finite regularity and Koszul algebras (with L. Avramov), American J. Math. 123 (2001), 275–281.

Toric Hilbert schemes (with M. Stillman), Duke Math. J. 111 (2002), 419–449.

Connectedness of Hilbert schemes (with M. Stillman), J. Alg. Geometry 14 (2005), 193–211.

Flips and Hilbert schemes over exterior algebras (with M. Stillman), Math. Ann. 339 (2007), 545–557.