LOCAL DUALITY FOR THE SINGULARITY CATEGORY OF A FINITE DIMENSIONAL GORENSTEIN ALGEBRA

A duality theorem for the singularity category of a finite dimensional Gorenstein algebra is proved. It complements a duality on the category of perfect complexes, discovered by Happel. One of its consequences is an analogue of Serre duality, and the existence of Auslander–Reiten triangles for the $\mathfrak{p}$ -local and $\mathfrak{p}$ -torsion subcategories of the derived category, for each homogeneous prime ideal $\mathfrak{p}$ arising from the action of a commutative ring via Hochschild cohomology.

Relative Canonical Modules and Some Duality Results

Let (R, m) be a relative Cohen–Macaulay local ring with respect to an ideal a of R and set c to be ht a. We investigate some properties of the Matlis dual of the R-module [Formula: see text], and we show that such modules behave like canonical modules over Cohen–Macaulay local rings. Moreover, we provide some duality and equivalence results with respect to the module [Formula: see text], and these results lead us to achieve generalizations of some known results, such as the local duality theorem, which have been provided over a Cohen–Macaulay local ring admiting a canonical R-module.

Algebraic intersection spaces

We define a variant of intersection space theory that applies to many compact complex and real analytic spaces [Formula: see text], including all complex projective varieties; this is a significant extension to a theory which has so far only been shown to apply to a particular subclass of spaces with smooth singular sets. We verify existence of these so-called algebraic intersection spaces and show that they are the (reduced) chain complexes of known topological intersection spaces in the case that both exist. We next analyze “local duality obstructions,” which we can choose to vanish, and verify that algebraic intersection spaces satisfy duality in the absence of these obstructions. We conclude by defining an untwisted algebraic intersection space pairing, whose signature is equal to the Novikov signature of the complement in [Formula: see text] of a tubular neighborhood of the singular set.

DUALITY FOR COHOMOLOGY OF CURVES WITH COEFFICIENTS IN ABELIAN VARIETIES

In this paper, we formulate and prove a duality for cohomology of curves over perfect fields of positive characteristic with coefficients in Néron models of abelian varieties. This is a global function field version of the author’s previous work on local duality and Grothendieck’s duality conjecture. It generalizes the perfectness of the Cassels–Tate pairing in the finite base field case. The proof uses the local duality mentioned above, Artin–Milne’s global finite flat duality, the nondegeneracy of the height pairing and finiteness of crystalline cohomology. All these ingredients are organized under the formalism of the rational étale site developed earlier.