Free modules of relative invariants and some rings of invariants that are Cohen-Macaulay
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Abstract:
Let $\rho : G \hookrightarrow \operatorname {GL}(n, \mathbb {F})$ be a faithful representation of a finite group $G$ and $\chi : G \longrightarrow \mathbb {F}^\times$ a linear character. We study the module $\mathbb {F}[V]^G_\chi$ of $\chi$-relative invariants. We prove a modular analogue of result of R. P. Stanley and V. Reiner in the case of nonmodular reflection groups to the effect that these modules are free on a single generator over the ring of invariants $\mathbb {F}[V]^G$. This result is then applied to show that the ring of invariants for $H = \operatorname {ker}(\chi ) \leq G$ is Cohen–Macaulay. Since the Cohen–Macaulay property is not an issue in the nonmodular case (it is a consequence of a theorem of Eagon and Hochster), this would seem to be a new way to verify the Cohen–Macaulay property for modular rings of invariants. It is known that the Cohen–Macaulay property is inherited when passing from the ring of invariants of $G$ to that of a pointwise stabilizer $G_U$ of a subspace $U \leq V = \mathbb {F}^n$. In a similar vein, we introduce for a subspace $U \leq V$ the subgroup $G_{\langle U \rangle }$ of elements of $G$ having $U$ as an eigenspace, and prove that $\mathbb {F}[V]^G$ Cohen–Macaulay implies $\mathbb {F}[V]^{G_{\langle U \rangle }}$ is also.References
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Additional Information
- Larry Smith
- Affiliation: Mathematisches Institut, Bunsenstraße 3–5, D 37073 Göttingen, Federal Republic of Germany
- Email: larry@uni-math.gwdg.de
- Received by editor(s): March 4, 2005
- Published electronically: March 21, 2006
- Communicated by: Bernd Ulrich
- © Copyright 2006
American Mathematical Society
The copyright for this article reverts to public domain 28 years after publication. - Journal: Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 134 (2006), 2205-2212
- MSC (2000): Primary 13A50, 13C14
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9939-06-08427-9
- MathSciNet review: 2213692