We strengthen certain results concerning actions of $(\Comp,+)$ on $\Comp^{3}$ and embeddings of $\Comp^{2}$ in $\Comp^{3}$, and show that these results are in fact valid over any field of characteristic zero.

Let $C_p$ denote the cyclic group of order $p$, where $p \geq 3$ is prime. We denote by $V_n$ the indecomposable $n$ dimensional representation of $C_p$ over a field $\mathbb F$ of characteristic $p$. We compute a set of generators, in fact a SAGBI basis, for the ring of invariants $\mathbb F[V_2 \oplus V_2 \oplus V_3]^{C_p}$.

This paper deals with the concepts of condensed and strongly condensed domains. By definition, an integral domain $R$ is condensed (resp. strongly condensed) if each pair of ideals $I$ and $J$ of $R$, $IJ=\{ab/a \in I, b \in J\}$ (resp. $IJ=aJ$ for some $a \in I$ or $IJ=Ib$ for some $b \in J$). More precisely, we investigate the ideal theory of condensed and strongly condensed domains in Noetherian-like settings, especially Mori and strong Mori domains and the transfer of these concepts to pullbacks.

An $R$-module $M$ is called a multiplication module if for each submodule $N$ of $M$, $N=IM$ for some ideal $I$ of $R$. As defined for a commutative ring $R$, an $R$-module $M$ is said to be semiprimitive if the intersection of maximal submodules of $M$ is zero. The maximal spectra of a semiprimitive multiplication module $M$ are studied. The isolated points of $\Max(M)$ are characterized algebraically. The relationships among the maximal spectra of $M$, $\Soc(M)$ and $\Ass(M)$ are studied. It is shown that $\Soc(M)$ is exactly the set of all elements of $M$ which belongs to every maximal submodule of $M$ except for a finite number. If $\Max(M)$ is infinite, $\Max(M)$ is a one-point compactification of a discrete space if and only if $M$ is Gelfand and for some maximal submodule $K$, $\Soc(M)$ is the intersection of all prime submodules of $M$ contained in $K$. When $M$ is a semiprimitive Gelfand module, we prove that every intersection of essential submodules of $M$ is an essential submodule if and only if $\Max(M)$ is an almost discrete space. The set of uniform submodules of $M$ and the set of minimal submodules of $M$ coincide. $\Ann(\Soc(M))M$ is a summand submodule of $M$ if and only if $\Max(M)$ is the union of two disjoint open subspaces $A$ and $N$, where $A$ is almost discrete and $N$ is dense in itself. In particular, $\Ann(\Soc(M))=\Ann(M)$ if and only if $\Max(M)$ is almost discrete.

Let $R$ be a commutative Noetherian ring, $\fa$ an ideal of $R$ and $M$ a finitely generated $R$-module. Let $t$ be a non-negative integer. It is known that if the local cohomology module $\H^i_\fa(M)$ is finitely generated for all $i
Keywords:local cohomology module, Artinian module, reflexive module
Categories:13D45, 13E10, 13C05

Let $R$ be a commutative Noetherian integral domain with field of fractions $Q$. Generalizing a forty-year-old theorem of E. Matlis, we prove that the $R$-module $Q/R$ (or $Q$) has Krull dimension if and only if $R$ is semilocal and one-dimensional. Moreover, if $X$ is an injective module over a commutative Noetherian ring such that $X$ has Krull dimension, then the Krull dimension of $X$ is at most $1$.

The behaviour of the Hasse-Schmidt algebra of higher derivations under localization is studied using Andr\'e cohomology. Elementary techniques are used to describe the Hasse-Schmidt derivations on certain monomial rings in the nonmodular case. The localization conjecture is then verified for all monomial rings.

An integral domain $D$ with identity is condensed (resp., strongly condensed) if for each pair of ideals $I$, $J$ of $D$, $IJ=\{ij; i\in I, j\in J\}$ (resp., $IJ=iJ$ for some $i\in I$ or $IJ =Ij$ for some $j\in J$). We show that for a Noetherian domain $D$, $D$ is condensed if and only if $\Pic(D)=0$ and $D$ is locally condensed, while a local domain is strongly condensed if and only if it has the two-generator property. An integrally closed domain $D$ is strongly condensed if and only if $D$ is a B\'{e}zout generalized Dedekind domain with at most one maximal ideal of height greater than one. We give a number of equivalencies for a local domain with finite integral closure to be strongly condensed. Finally, we show that for a field extension $k\subseteq K$, the domain $D=k+XK[[X]]$ is condensed if and only if $[K:k]\leq 2$ or $[K:k]=3$ and each degree-two polynomial in $k[X]$ splits over $k$, while $D$ is strongly condensed if and only if $[K:k] \leq 2$.

In this note we show that the image of the transfer for permutation representations of finite groups is generated by the transfers of special monomials. This leads to a description of the image of the transfer of the alternating groups. We also determine the height of these ideals.

Sufficient conditions are given in order to prove the lowest unknown case of the grade conjecture. The proof combines vanishing results of local cohomology and the $S_{2}$ condition.

In this paper, we determine some sufficient conditions for an $A + XB[X]$ domain to be an HFD. As a consequence we give new examples of HFDs of the type $A + XB[X]$.

If $n$ and $m$ are positive integers, necessary and sufficient conditions are given for the existence of a finite commutative ring $R$ with exactly $n$ elements and exactly $m$ prime ideals. Next, assuming the Axiom of Choice, it is proved that if $R$ is a commutative ring and $T$ is a commutative $R$-algebra which is generated by a set $I$, then each chain of prime ideals of $T$ lying over the same prime ideal of $R$ has at most $2^{|I|}$ elements. A polynomial ring example shows that the preceding result is best-possible.

Soient $A$ un anneau noeth\'erien, $B$ un anneau r\'egulier essentiellement de type fini sur $A$. Si la cohomologie d'Andr\'e-Quillen $H^q (A,B,B) = 0$ pour tout $q \geq 2$ alors $A$ est un anneau r\'egulier.

A counterexample is given to a conjecture of Ikeda by finding a class of Gorenstein rings of embedding dimension $3$ with larger Dilworth number than Sperner number. The Dilworth number of $A[Z/pZ\oplus Z/pZ]$ is computed when $A$ is an unramified principal Artin local ring.

Let $R$ be a one-dimensional locally analytically irreducible Noetherian domain with finite residue fields. In this note it is shown that if $I$ is a finitely generated ideal of the ring $\Int(R)$ of integer-valued polynomials such that for each $x \in R$ the ideal $I(x) =\{f(x) \mid f \in I\}$ is strongly $n$-generated, $n \geq 2$, then $I$ is $n$-generated, and some variations of this result.

This paper contains two essentially independent results in the invariant theory of finite groups. First we prove that, for any faithful representation of a non-trivial $p$-group over a field of characteristic $p$, the ring of vector invariants of $m$ copies of that representation is not \comac\ for $m\geq 3$. In the second section of the paper we use Poincar\'e series methods to produce upper bounds for the degrees of the generators for the ring of invariants as long as that ring is Gorenstein. We prove that, for a finite non-trivial group $G$ and a faithful representation of dimension $n$ with $n>1$, if the ring of invariants is Gorenstein then the ring is generated in degrees less than or equal to $n(|G|-1)$. If the ring of invariants is a hypersurface, the upper bound can be improved to $|G|$.

Vector invariants of finite groups (see the introduction for an explanation of the terminology) have often been used to illustrate the difficulties of invariant theory in the modular case: see, \eg., \cite{Ber}, \cite{norway}, \cite{fossum}, \cite{MmeB}, \cite{poly} and \cite{survey}. It is therefore all the more surprising that the {\it unpleasant} properties of these invariants may be derived from two unexpected, and remarkable, {\it nice} properties: namely for vector permutation invariants of the cyclic group $\mathbb{Z}/p$ of prime order in characteristic $p$ the image of the transfer homomorphism $\Tr^{\mathbb{Z}/p} \colon \mathbb{F}[V] \lra \mathbb{F}[V]^{\mathbb{Z}/p}$ is a prime ideal, and the quotient algebra $\mathbb{F}[V]^{\mathbb{Z}/p}/ \Im (\Tr^{\mathbb{Z}/p})$ is a polynomial algebra on the top Chern classes of the action.

Let $H$ be a faithfully projective Hopf algebra over a commutative ring $k$. In \cite{CVZ1, CVZ2} we defined the Brauer group $\BQ(k,H)$ of $H$ and an homomorphism $\pi$ from Hopf automorphism group $\Aut_{\Hopf}(H)$ to $\BQ(k,H)$. In this paper, we show that the morphism $\pi$ can be embedded into an exact sequence.

{If A is a subring of a commutative ring B and if n is a positive integer, a number of sufficient conditions are given for ``A[[X]]is n-root closed in B[[X]]'' to be equivalent to ``A is n-root closed in B.'' In addition, it is shown that if S is a multiplicative submonoid of the positive integers ${\bbd P}$ which is generated by primes, then there exists a one-dimensional quasilocal integral domain A (resp., a von Neumann regular ring A) such that $S = \{ n \in {\bbd P}\mid A$ is $n$-root closed$\}$ (resp., $S = \{n \in {\bbd P}\mid A[[X]]$ is $n$-rootclosed$\}$).

We consider graded connected Gorenstein algebras with respect to the evaluation map $\ev_G = \Ext_G(k,\varepsilon )=:: \Ext_G(k,G) \longrightarrow \Ext_G(k,k)$. We prove that if $\ev_G \neq 0$, then the global dimension of $G$ is finite.

We consider the rings of invariants $R^G$, where $R$ is the symmetric algebra of a tensor product between two vector spaces over the field $F_p$ and $G=U_n\times U_m$. A polynomial algebra is constructed and these invariants provide Chern classes for the modular cohomology of $U_{n+m}$.