Exceptional complete intersection maps of local rings

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Abstract: This work concerns surjective maps varphicolonRoS of commutative noetherian local rings with kernel generated by a regular sequence that is part of a minimal generating set for the maximal ideal of R. The main result provides criteria for detecting such exceptional complete intersection maps in terms of the lattices of thick subcategories of the derived category of complexes of finite length homology. A key input is a characterization of such maps in terms of the truncated Atiyah class of varphi.


Let \(f: R\rightarrow S\) be an epimorphism of commutative noetherian local rings. Then \(f\) is said to be ``complete intersection if \(\mathrm{Ker}(f)\) is generated by a regular sequence on \(R\). In particular, \(f\) is said to be ``exceptional complete intersection if \(\mathrm{Ker}(f)\) is generated by a regular sequence on \(R\) that is part of a minimal generating set for the maximal ideal of \(R\). Such maps arise naturally in various contexts; for example, the diagonal of a smooth map has this property locally. On the other hand, for each \(S\)-complex \(X\), there is a naturally defined morphism in the derived category \(\mathcal{D}(S)\) called the ``truncated Atiyah class of \(f\) at \(X\) and denoted by \(\mathrm{at}^{f}(X)\). The authors prove the following characterization of exceptional complete intersection maps. Theorem. Let \(f: R\rightarrow S\) be an epimorphism of commutative noetherian local rings, and \(k\) the common residue field of \(R\) and \(S\). Then the following assertions are equivalent: \begin{itemize} \item[(i)] \(f\) is exceptional complete intersection. \item[(ii)] \(\mathrm{pd}_{R}(S)< \infty\) and \(\mathrm{at}^{f}(k)=0\). \end{itemize} Using this result, they further establish the following characterization of exceptional complete intersection maps. Theorem. Let \(f: R\rightarrow S\) be an epimorphism of commutative noetherian local rings. Then the following assertions are equivalent: \begin{itemize} \item[(i)] \(f\) is exceptional complete intersection. \item[(ii)] \(\mathrm{pd}_{R}(S)< \infty\) and the restriction of scalars functor \(f_{\ast}:\mathcal{D}^{\mathrm{fl}}_{\square}(S)\rightarrow \mathcal{D}^{\mathrm{fl}}_{\square}(R)\) induces an isomorphism between the lattices of thick subcategories. \end{itemize}



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