Krull dimension for differential graded algebras

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Abstract: We introduce a naive notion of a system of parameters for a homologically finite complex over a commutative noetherian local ring, and compare it to the system of parameters defined by Christensen. We show that these notions differ in general, but that they agree when the complex in question is a DG R-algebra. In this case we also show that the Krull dimension defined in terms of the lengths of such systems of parameters agrees with Krull dimensions defined in terms of certain chains of prime ideals.


Let \((R, \mathfrak{m})\) be a commutative noetherian local ring with identity. A \textit{homologically finite} \(R\)-complex denotes a \(R\)-complex \(X\) such that the total homology module \(\amalg_{i \in \mathbb{Z}} H_i(X)\) is finitely generated. The \textit{infimum} of a \(R\)-complex is \(\text{inf}(X) := \{i \in \mathbb{Z}| H_i(X) \neq 0\}\). For the purpose of this review, all \(R\)-complexes are homologically finite. Let \(K^R(\mathbf{x})\) denote the Koszul complex over \(R\) on a sequence \(\mathbf{x} = x_1, \ldots ,x_n \in R\). The notion of \textit{Krull dimension} of an \(R\)-complex \(X\) was defined in [\textit{H.-B. Foxby}, J. Pure Appl. Algebra 15, 149--172 (1979; Zbl 0411.13006)] as \[ \text{dim}_R(X) := \text{sup}\{\text{dim}(R/p) - \text{inf}(X_p)| p \in \text{Supp}_R(X)\} \] \textit{L. W. Christensen} [Math. Scand. 89, No. 2, 161--180 (2001; Zbl 1021.13014)] defined the \textit{system of parameters} for a \(R\)-complex related to this Krull dimension. In the present paper, the authors define a \textit{length sequence} for \(X\) to be a sequence \(\mathbf{x} = x_1,\ldots ,x_d \in \mathfrak{m}\) such that the homologies of \(K^R(\mathbf{x}) \otimes X\) have finite length. A \textit{length system of parameters} is a length sequence of the smallest length. The authors also introduce the notion of \textit{length dimension} \(\text{ldim}_R(X)\) for a \(R\)-complex \(X\) as \[ \text{ldim}_R(X):= m - \text{inf}(X) \] where \(m\) is the length of a length system of parameters. In section 2, they introduce the notion of \textit{DG Krull dimension}, denoted \(\text{DGdim}(A)\), for a DG \(R\)-algebra \(A\), as the supremum of length of a chain of DG prime ideals of \(A\). Lemma 3.3 of the paper shows that \(\text{ldim}_R(X) \geq \text{dim}_R(X) \) where inequality can be strict (Example 3.4). The central result of the paper (Theorem 1.3) states that when \(X\) is a \(DG\) \(R\)-algebra these notions agree with the standard ones. More specifically, the authors show that when \(A\) is homologically finite positively graded commutative local noetherian DG \(A_0\)-algebra such that \((A_0, \mathfrak{m_0})\) is local noetherian then the notions of system of parameters for \(A\) (as defined by Christensen [Zbl 1021.13014]), system of parameters for \(H_0(A)\) and the length system of parameters for \(A\) (as defined by the authors), are all equivalent. For the various notions of dimension, they prove \[ \text{ldim}_{A_0}(A) = \text{dim}_{A_0}(A) = \text{dim}(H_0(A)) \] Furthermore, when \(A\) is generated over \(A_0\) in odd degrees or if \(A\) is bounded then they prove that \[ \text{DGdim}(A) = \text{ldim}_{A_0}(A) = \text{dim}_{A_0}(A) = \text{dim}(H_0(A)) \]











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