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Ranks of Chain Complexes Over the Complex Polynomial Ring

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Piotr M. Zelewski*
Affiliation:
Mathematics and Statistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario L8S 4K1
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Abstract

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Using LePotier's vanishing theorem, we establish a lower bound on the rank of nontrivial free differential complex in terms of the dimension of the support for its cohomology. Our bound specializes to the one predicted by the syzygy theorem of Evans and Griffith.

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Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1991

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