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.