Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2008. / Title from title screen (site viewed Nov. 25, 2008). PDF text: v, 87 p. : ill. ; 792 K. UMI publication number: AAT 3315051. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.

Thesis (Ph.D) -- University of Texas at Arlington, 2009.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Missouri-Columbia, 2007. / The entire dissertation/thesis text is included in the research.pdf file; the official abstract appears in the short.pdf file (which also appears in the research.pdf); a non-technical general description, or public abstract, appears in the public.pdf file. Title from title screen of research.pdf file (viewed on March 20, 2009) Vita. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2007. / Title from title screen (site viewed Oct. 10, 2007). PDF text: 127 p. : ill. UMI publication number: AAT 3258773. Includes bibliographical references. Also available in microfilm and microfiche formats.

On s'intéresse aux invariants pour l'action naturelle du groupe SL_2<br />sur l'algèbre B des coordonnées homogènes de la Grassmannienne des<br />pinceaux de formes quintiques binaires. La variété quotient<br />Proj(B^SL_2) est un candidat naturel pour la variété de modules des<br />quintiques gauches rationnelles.<br /><br />Un procédé connu établit une correspondance birationnelle et<br />équivariante entre la Grassmannienne des pinceaux de formes binaires<br />de degré d et l'espace projectif des formes binaires de degré 2d-2.<br />Lorsque le degré d est 5, cela suggère de comparer l'algèbre B^SL_2 et<br />l'algèbre des invariants d'une forme octique binaire. Cette algèbre a<br />été décrite en détail par T. Shioda en 1967.<br /><br />Nous établissons pour B^SL_2 un résultat analogue à celui de T.<br />Shioda : l'algèbre B^SL_2 est le quotient de l'algèbre de polynômes à<br />neuf indéterminées R=C[x_1,x_2,x_3,x'_3,x_4,x_5,x'_5,x_6,x_7] (les<br />indices donnent les degrés des indéterminées) par l'idéal des<br />4-Pfaffiens d'une matrice alternée 5x5 ; on identifie (numériquement)<br />la résolution libre minimale du R-module B^SL_2 ; enfin, on obtient<br />une famille génératrice minimale de l'algèbre B^SL_2.<br /><br />Pour y parvenir on commence par étendre la formule de T. Springer<br />(donnant la série de Poincaré de l'algèbre des invariants d'une forme<br />binaire) à l'algèbre des coordonnées homogènes d'une Grassmannienne.<br /><br /><br />Le point clé suivant consiste en l'identification d'un système de<br />paramètres homogènes. C'est possible grâce à une caractérisation, au<br />moyen du morphisme Wronskien, de la stabilité sur la Grassmannienne.<br />Il faut ensuite étudier les covariants d'ordre 4 et degré 2, ce qui<br />donne lieu à quelques énoncés de nature géométrique.<br /><br />Ces techniques permettent également de décrire les algèbres<br />d'invariants des pinceaux de cubiques et quartiques. Par ailleurs<br />l'étude du Wronskien conduit à de nouvelles formules de pléthysme.

The aim of this thesis is to study the Hilbert function of a one-dimensional Gorenstein local ring of embedding dimension four in the case of monomial curves. We show that the Hilbert function is non-decreasing for some families of Gorenstein monomial curves in affine 4-space. In order to prove this result, under some arithmetic assumptions on generators of the defining ideal, we determine the minimal generators of their tangent cones by using the standard basis and check the Cohen-Macaulayness of them. Later, we determine the behavior of the Hilbert function of these curves, and we extend these families to higher dimensions by using a method developed by Morales. In this way, we obtain large families of local rings with non-decreasing Hilbert function.

<p>The goal of this dissertation is to broaden the classes of ideals for which the generators of residual intersections are known. This is split into two main parts.</p> <p>The first part is Chapter 5, where we prove that, for an ideal I in a local Cohen-Macaulay ring R, under suitable technical assumptions, we are able to express s-residual intersections, for s ≥ μ(I) − 2, in terms of (μ(I) − 2)-residual intersections. This result implies that s- residual intersections can be expressed in terms of links, if μ(I) ≤ ht(I) + 3 and some other hypotheses are satisfied. In Chapter 5, we prove our result using two different methods and two different sets of technical assumptions on the depth conditions satisfied by the ideal I. For Section 5.2 and Section 5.3 we use the properties of Fitting ideals and methods developed in [33] to prove our main result. In these sections, we require I to satisfy the Gs condition and be weakly (s − 2)-residually S2. In Section 5.4, we prove analogous results to those in Section 5.2 and Section 5.3 using disguised residual intersections, a notion developed by Bouca and Hassansadeh in [5].</p> <p>The second part is Chapter 6 where we prove that the n-residual intersections of ideals generated by maximal minors of a 2 × n generic matrix for n ≥ 4 are sums of links. To prove this, we require a series of technical results. We begin by proving the main theorem for this chapter in a special case, using the results of Section 6.1 to compute the generators of the relevant links in a our special case, and then using these generators to compute the Gro ̈bner Basis for the sum of links in Section 6.2. The computation of the Gro ̈bner basis, as well as an application of graph theoretic results about binomial edge ideals [17], allow us to show that our main theorem holds in this special case. Lastly, we conclude our proof in Section 6.3, where we show that n-residual intersections of ideals generated by maximal minors of 2 × n generic matrices commute with specialization maps, and use this to show that the generic n-residual intersections of ideals generated by maximal minors of a 2 × n generic matrix for n ≥ 4 are sums of links. This allows us to prove the main theorem of Chapter 6.</p>