Duality and socle generators for residual intersections

Abstract

AbstractWe prove duality results for residual intersections that unify and complete results of van Straten, Huneke–Ulrich and Ulrich, and settle conjectures of van Straten and Warmt.Suppose that I is an ideal of codimension g in a Gorenstein ring, and {J\subset I} is an ideal with {s=g+t} generators such that {K:=J:I} has codimension s. Let {{\overline{I}}} be the image of I in {{\overline{R}}:=R/K}.In the first part of the paper we prove, among other things, that under suitable hypotheses on I, the truncated Rees ring {{\overline{R}}\oplus{\overline{I}}\oplus\cdots\oplus{\overline{I}}{}^{t+1}} is a Gorenstein ring, and that the modules {{\overline{I}}{}^{u}} and {{\overline{I}}{}^{t+1-u}} are dual to one another via the multiplication pairing into {{{\overline{I}}{}^{t+1}}\cong{\omega_{\overline{R}}}}.In the second part of the paper we study the analogue of residue theory, and prove that, when {R/K} is a finite-dimensional algebra over a field of characteristic 0 and certain other hypotheses are satisfied, the socle of {I^{t+1}/JI^{t}\cong{\omega_{R/K}}} is generated by a Jacobian determinant.