Hochster's theta pairing and numerical equivalence

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Abstract: Let (A,m) be a local hypersurface with isolated singularity. We show that Hochster's theta pairing vanishes on elements that are {numerically equivalent to zero} in the Grothendieck group of A under the mild assumption that specA admits a resolution of singularity. We also prove that when dimA=3, the Hochster's theta pairing is positive semidefinite. These results combine to show that the counter-example of Dutta-Hochster-McLaughlin to general vanishing of Serre's intersection multiplicity exists for any three dimensional isolated hypersurface singularity that is not a UFD and has a desingularization. Our method involves showing that theta gives a bivariant class for the morphism specA/mospecA. It also follows that if A is three dimensional isolated hypersurface singularity that has a desingularization, the divisor class group of A is finitely generated torsion-free.












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