F-Signature and Relative Hilbert-Kunz Multiplicity
Presenter
May 8, 2013
Keywords:
- characteristic p
- commutative algebra
- birational algebraic geometry
- multiplier ideals
- singularities of varieties
- F-signature
- Frobenius invariants
- cyclic modules
MSC:
- 13A35
- 13A15
- 13A18
- 13Axx
- 13-xx
- 14-xx
- 14Exx
- 14E05
- 14E15
- 14E25
- 14E22
Abstract
The F-signature and Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity of a local ring are among a number of numerical invariants defined via Frobenius in positive characteristic. After introducing these so-called F-invariants, we will sketch a partial answer to a question of Watanabe and Yoshida by showing that the F-signature and relative Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity (for cyclic modules) coincide. The method of proof also suggests a number of generalizations of both invariants that will be described as time allows.