Betti numbers of modules over Noetherian rings with ... - IPM
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Chapter 1<br />
Preliminaries<br />
In this chapter we collect some basic facts which will be used throughout <strong>of</strong> this<br />
thesis. Our sources for most <strong>of</strong> this material are: for basic commutative algebra,<br />
[26, 51]; for the theory <strong>of</strong> Cohen-Macaulay <strong>rings</strong> and <strong>modules</strong>, [16]; for homological<br />
algebra, [69]; and for Rees <strong>rings</strong>, [67]. In this dissertation we will be concerned<br />
primarily <strong>with</strong> commutative <strong>rings</strong> R (<strong>with</strong> identity) which are <strong>of</strong> either <strong>of</strong> the following<br />
types<br />
• <strong>Noetherian</strong> local <strong>rings</strong>; or<br />
• homogeneous K-algebras, K a field.<br />
A homogeneous K-algebra (so called a standard graded algebra) is a positively graded<br />
∞<br />
ring R = Ri, where Ri denotes the ith graded component <strong>of</strong> R, such that R0 = K,<br />
i=0<br />
each Ri is a finite dimensional vector space <strong>over</strong> K, and R is generated as a K-<br />
algebra in degree 1: R = R0[R1]. Equivalently, R is <strong>of</strong> the form R = S/I, where<br />
S = K[x1, · · · , xn] is a polynomial ring <strong>over</strong> K <strong>with</strong> deg xi = 1 and I is a homogeneous<br />
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