Algebraic Invariants of Edge Ideals Under Suspension

This paper investigates how algebraic invariants of edge ideals change under selective graph suspensions, demonstrating that while suspensions over minimal vertex covers consistently preserve regularity and increase projective dimension by one, suspensions over maximal independent sets exhibit uniform behavior only for paths and cycles, with a specific extremal family of paths showing increases in both regularity and the a\mathfrak{a}-invariant.

Selvi Kara, Dalena VienMon, 09 Ma🔢 math

The small finitistic dimensions of commutative rings, III

This paper establishes a characterization of the small finitistic dimension of a commutative ring RR in terms of the vanishing of Ext groups for finitely generated ideals, proving that fPD(R)d(R)\leq d if and only if the vanishing of ExtRi(R/I,R)Ext_R^i(R/I,R) for i=0,,di=0,\dots,d implies its vanishing for all i0i\geq 0, and applies this result to derive the inequality fPD(R)FP-IdRR(R)\leq \text{FP-}Id_RR and analyze various classes of rings such as (n,d)(n,d)-rings and DW-rings.

Xiaolei Zhang2026-03-06🔢 math

Generic flatness of the cohomology of thickenings

This paper establishes a generic flatness result for the cohomology of thickenings of smooth projective schemes over characteristic zero Noetherian domains, while simultaneously demonstrating that for nine points in the projective plane, the associated local cohomology module fails to be generically free and possesses infinitely many associated prime ideals, thereby addressing open questions regarding the constancy of the least degree of hypersurfaces with prescribed multiplicities.

Edoardo Ballico, Yairon Cid-Ruiz, Anurag K. Singh2026-03-06🔢 math

Relative A1\mathbb{A}^1-Contractibility of Smooth Schemes and Exotic Motivic Spheres

This thesis extends the relative A1\mathbb{A}^1-contractibility of Koras-Russell threefolds and their higher-dimensional prototypes to arbitrary Noetherian base schemes, thereby establishing the existence of the first known family of smooth "exotic" motivic spheres in dimensions n4n \geq 4 that are A1\mathbb{A}^1-homotopic to, but not isomorphic to, the punctured affine space An{0}\mathbb{A}^n \setminus \{0\}.

Krishna Kumar Madhavan Vijayalakshmi2026-03-05🔢 math

A criterion for modules over Gorenstein local rings to have rational Poincaré series

This paper establishes that modules over specific classes of Gorenstein local rings, including those where R/\soc(R)R/\soc(R) is a Golod ring or the square of the maximal ideal is generated by at most two elements, possess rational Poincaré series with a common denominator, thereby confirming the Auslander-Reiten conjecture for these rings and providing new proofs for existing results on compressed and low codepth rings.

Anjan Gupta2026-03-05🔢 math