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Differential operators, retracts, and toric face rings

Christine Berkesch·C-Y. Jean Chan·Patricia Klein·Laura Felicia Matusevich·Janet Page·Janet Vassilev
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We give explicit descriptions of rings of differential operators of toric face rings in characteristic $0$. For quotients of normal affine semigroup rings by radical monomial ideals, we also identify which of their differential operators are induced by differential operators on the ambient ring. Lastly, we provide a criterion for the Gorenstein property of a normal affine semigroup ring in terms of its differential operators. Our main technique is to realize the k-algebras we study in terms of a suitable family of their algebra retracts in a way that is compatible with the characterization of differential operators. This strategy allows us to describe differential operators of any k-algebra realized by retracts in terms of the differential operators on these retracts, without restriction on char(k).

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Christine Berkesch, C-Y. Jean Chan, Patricia Klein, Laura Felicia Matusevich, Janet Page, Janet Vassilev. 2023-03-08. Differential operators, retracts, and toric face rings. https://doi.org/10.2140/ant.2023.17.1959

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