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Local cohomology and modules of generalized fractions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

R. Y. Sharp
Affiliation:
Department of Pure Mathematics, The University, Sheffield. S3 7RH
H. Zakeri
Affiliation:
Department for Teacher Education, 49 Mobarezan Avenue, Tehran, Iran.
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The purpose of this paper is to provide additional evidence to support our view that the modules of generalized fractions introduced in [8] are worth further investigation: we show that, for a module M over a (commutative, Noetherian) local ring A (with identity) having maximal ideal m and dimension n, the n-th local cohomology module may be viewed as a module of generalized fractions of M with respect to a certain triangular subset of An + 1, and we use this work to formulate Hochster's ‘Monomial Conjecture’ [2, Conjecture 1]; in terms of modules of generalized fractions and to make a quick deduction of one of Hochster's results which supports that conjecture.

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Copyright © University College London 1982

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