Poincare Duality Algebras, Macaulay's Dual Systems, and Steenrod Operations

Dagmar M. Meyer (Georg-August-Universitat, Goettingen, Germany),Larry Smith (Georg-August-Universitat, Goettingen, Germany)

Poincare Duality Algebras, Macaulay's Dual Systems, and Steenrod Operations
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Country
United Kingdom
Published
6 October 2005
Pages
202
ISBN
9780521850643

Poincare Duality Algebras, Macaulay’s Dual Systems, and Steenrod Operations

Dagmar M. Meyer (Georg-August-Universitat, Goettingen, Germany),Larry Smith (Georg-August-Universitat, Goettingen, Germany)

Poincare duality algebras originated in the work of topologists on the cohomology of closed manifolds, and Macaulay’s dual systems in the study of irreducible ideals in polynomial algebras. These two ideas are tied together using basic commutative algebra involving Gorenstein algebras. Steenrod operations also originated in algebraic topology, but may best be viewed as a means of encoding the information often hidden behind the Frobenius map in characteristic p<>0. They provide a noncommutative tool to study commutative algebras over a Galois field. In this Tract the authors skilfully bring together these ideas and apply them to problems in invariant theory. A number of remarkable and unexpected interdisciplinary connections are revealed that will interest researchers in the areas of commutative algebra, invariant theory or algebraic topology.

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