Singularities of certain ladder determinantal varieties (Q1898415)

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    Singularities of certain ladder determinantal varieties (English)
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    29 October 1995
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    A noetherian local ring \(R\) of prime characteristic is said to be \(F\)-rational if every parameter ideal is tighly closed. In an earlier paper, the second author [``\(F\)-rational rings have rational singularities'' (preprint)] showed that \(F\)-rational type implies rational singularities. \textit{A. Conca} and \textit{J. Herzog} [``Determinantal rings of one-sided ladders are \(F\)-rational'' (preprint)] used this result to prove that one-sided ladder determinantal ideals have rational singularities. This can be deduced also from works of \textit{Mulay} and \textit{Ramanathan} on Schubert varieties. Since the classical determinantal varieties have rational singularities, one may ask whether this holds for the larger class of ladder determinantal varieties. The main result of this paper confirms this question for complete intersection ladder determinantal varieties by showing that all ideals of their coordinate rings are tightly closed.
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    tight closure
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    rational singularities
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    complete intersection ladder determinantal varieties
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