On the geometry of the sequence of infinitely near points.
We study, in certain cases, the notions of finiteness and stability of the set of associated primes and vanishing of the homogeneous pieces of graded generalized local cohomology modules.
We give a short proof of the Jacobian criterion of formal smoothness using the Lichtenbaum-Schlessinger cotangent complex.
Let be a polynomial with complex coefficients. The Łojasiewicz exponent of the gradient of h at infinity is the least upper bound of the set of all real λ such that in a neighbourhood of infinity in ℂ², for c > 0. We estimate this quantity in terms of the Newton diagram of h. Equality is obtained in the nondegenerate case.
Let be a projective Frobenius split variety with a fixed Frobenius splitting . In this paper we give a sharp uniform bound on the number of subvarieties of which are compatibly Frobenius split with . Similarly, we give a bound on the number of prime -ideals of an -finite -pure local ring. Finally, we also give a bound on the number of log canonical centers of a log canonical pair. This final variant extends a special case of a result of Helmke.