Symmetric Ladders and G-biliaison

  • Elisa Gorla
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Part of the Progress in Mathematics book series (PM, volume 280)

Abstract

We study the family of ideals generated by minors of mixed size contained in a ladder of a symmetric matrix from the point of view of liaison theory. We prove that they can be obtained from ideals of linear forms by ascending G-biliaison. In particular, they are glicci.

Mathematics Subject Classification (2000)

14M06 13C40 14M12 

Keywords

G-biliaison Gorenstein liaison minor symmetric matrix symmetric ladder complete intersection Gorenstein ideal Cohen-Macaulay ideal 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Elisa Gorla
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  1. 1.Institut für MathematikUniversität ZürichZürichSwitzerland

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