BERNSTEIN–SATO POLYNOMIALS AND TEST MODULES IN POSITIVE CHARACTERISTIC

Abstract

In analogy with the complex analytic case, Mustaţă constructed (a family of) Bernstein–Sato polynomials for the structure sheaf${\mathcal{O}}_{X}$and a hypersurface$(f=0)$in$X$, where$X$is a regular variety over an$F$-finite field of positive characteristic (see Mustaţă,Bernstein–Sato polynomials in positive characteristic, J. Algebra321(1) (2009), 128–151). He shows that the suitably interpreted zeros of his Bernstein–Sato polynomials correspond to the$F$-jumping numbers of the test ideal filtration${\it\tau}(X,f^{t})$. In the present paper we generalize Mustaţă’s construction replacing${\mathcal{O}}_{X}$by an arbitrary$F$-regular Cartier module$M$on$X$and show an analogous correspondence of the zeros of our Bernstein–Sato polynomials with the jumping numbers of the associated filtration of test modules${\it\tau}(M,f^{t})$provided that$f$is a nonzero divisor on$M$.