Non-commutative resolutions #3
Presenter
September 7, 2012
Keywords:
- algebraic combinatorics
- commutative algebra
- cluster algebra
- crepant resolution
- noncommutative algebraic geometry
- canonical divisors
- endomorphism ring
- Cohen-Macaulay modules
- Gorenstein rings
MSC:
- 13F60
- 13Fxx
- 13-xx
- 05-xx
- 14E15
- 13H10
- 13H05
- 13Hxx
Abstract
If R is a local Gorenstein ring then a non-commutative crepant resolution for R is a reflexive R-module M such that the endomorphism ring of M is Cohen-Macaulay as an R-module and has finite global dimension. This turns out to be a sensible generalization of the algebraic geometry concept of a crepant resolution of singularities.
We will give background on non-commutative resolutions and survey some of the existence/non-existence results.