Recent progress on Hilbert's Fourteenth Problem via triangular derivations

DOI10.4064/AP76-1-9MaRDI QIDQ2724122zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Gene Freudenburg

Publication date 9 July 2001

Published in Annales Polonici Mathematici (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.4064/ap76-1-9

zbMATH Keywords

derivationsHilbert's fourteenth problem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Actions of groups on commutative rings; invariant theory (13A50) Derivations and commutative rings (13N15) Group actions on affine varieties (14R20)

Review text

A special case of Hilbert's fourteenth problem asks whether the kernel of a \(k\)-derivation \(D\) on the polynomial ring \(k[x_1,x_2,\dots,x_n]\) is always finitely generated (where \(k\) a field of characteristic 0). By results of Zariski, this is true for \(n\leq 3\). The reviewer showed that Nagata's famous counterexample to Hilbert's fourteenth problem can be used to construct a derivation on the polynomial ring in 32 variables whose kernel is not finitely generated. Smaller and easier counterexamples have been found by Roberts (\(n=7\)), Freudenburg (\(n=6\)) and by Daigle and Freudenburg (\(n=5\)). The only case open is \(n=4\). All the new counterexamples have a triangular form (and are locally nilpotent). Daigle and Freudenburg showed that the kernel of a triangular derivation in four variables is finitely generated. This paper gives an overview about the finite generation of kernels of derivations with triangular form.

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