On the vanishing of Hochster's invariant

DOI10.2140/AKT.2017.2.131zbMATH Open1365.13027arXiv1402.0805OpenAlexW3123167947MaRDI QIDQ503335FDOQ503335

Authors: Mark E. Walker 

Publication date: 12 January 2017

Published in: Annals of \(K\)-Theory (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Hochster's theta invariant is defined for a pair of finitely generated modules on a hypersurface ring having only an isolated singularity. Up to a sign, it agrees with the Euler invariant of a pair of matrix factorizations. Working over the complex numbers, Buchweitz and van Straten have established an interesting connection between Hochster's theta invariant and the classical linking form on the link of the singularity. In particular, they establish the vanishing of the theta invariant if the hypersurface is even-dimensional by exploiting the fact that the (reduced) cohomology of the Milnor fiber is concentrated in odd degrees in this situation. In this paper, we give purely algebraic versions of some of these results. In particular, we establish the vanishing of the theta invariant for isolated hypersurface singularities of odd dimension in characteristic p > 0, under some mild extra assumptions. This confirms, in a large number of cases, a conjecture of Hailong Dao.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.0805

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zbMATH Keywords

matrix factorizationhypersurfacetheta invariant

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Grothendieck groups, (K)-theory and commutative rings (13D15) Miscellaneous applications of (K)-theory (19M05)

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