Nearly Gorenstein cyclic quotient singularities

We investigate the nearly Gorenstein property among d-dimensional cyclic quotient singularities $$\Bbbk \llbracket x_1,\dots ,x_d\rrbracket ^G$$ k 〚 x 1 , ⋯ , x d 〛 G , where $$\Bbbk $$ k is an algebraically closed field and $$G\subseteq {\text {GL}}(d,\Bbbk )$$ G ⊆ GL ( d , k ) is a finite small cyclic group whose order is invertible in $$\Bbbk $$ k . We prove a necessary and sufficient condition to be nearly Gorenstein that also allows us to find several new classes of such rings.

The dualizing sheaf on first-order deformations of toric surface singularities

We explicitly describe infinitesimal deformations of cyclic quotient singularities that satisfy one of the deformation conditions introduced by Wahl, Kollár–Shepherd-Barron (KSB) and Viehweg. The conclusion is that in many cases these three notions are different from each other. In particular, we see that while the KSB and the Viehweg versions of the moduli space of surfaces of general type have the same underlying reduced subscheme, their infinitesimal structures are different.

Calabi–Yau Double Coverings of Fano–Enriques Threefolds

This note is a report on the observation that the Fano–Enriques threefolds with terminal cyclic quotient singularities admit Calabi–Yau threefolds as their double coverings. We calculate the invariants of those Calabi–Yau threefolds when the Picard number is one. It turns out that all of them are new examples.

VANISHING OF THE NEGATIVE HOMOTOPY -THEORY OF QUOTIENT SINGULARITIES

Making use of Gruson–Raynaud’s technique of ‘platification par éclatement’, Kerz and Strunk proved that the negative homotopy$K$-theory groups of a Noetherian scheme$X$of Krull dimension$d$vanish below$-d$. In this article, making use of noncommutative algebraic geometry, we improve this result in the case of quotient singularities by proving that the negative homotopy$K$-theory groups vanish below$-1$. Furthermore, in the case of cyclic quotient singularities, we provide an explicit ‘upper bound’ for the first negative homotopy$K$-theory group.