Complexity and curvature of pairs of Burch modules and ideals

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Abstract

The complexity and curvature of a module were first introduced by Avramov to distinguish modules of infinite homological dimension. Later, Avramov-Buchweitz extended the notion of complexity from a single module to that of pairs of modules, which measures the polynomial growth rate of the minimal number of generators of their Ext modules. Dao studied a similar notion of Tor-complexity. Recently, Dey-Ghosh-Saha initiated the study of Ext and Tor curvature of a pair of modules, which measure the exponential growth rates of the corresponding Ext and Tor, respectively. On the other hand, the concept of Burch ideals was introduced by Dao-Kobayashi-Takahashi, motivated by the classical work of Burch, and subsequently extended to modules by Dey-Kobayashi. This class includes several large and well-studied families of modules and ideals over a Noetherian local ring (R,m,k)(R,\mathfrak{m},k). For example, these include the residue field kk as an RR-module, every nonzero module of the form mM\mathfrak{m} M (e.g., mn\mathfrak{m}^n for n≥1n\ge 1), and under mild conditions every integrally closed ideal II with depth(R/I)=0\rm{depth}(R/I)=0. Suppose II and JJ are Burch ideals such that II is m\mathfrak{m}-primary. Motivated by Avramov's result that Burch modules exhibit extremal complexity and curvature, we establish in this article that cxR(I,J)=tcxR(I,J)=cxR(k)\rm{cx}_R(I,J)=\rm{tcx}_R(I,J)=\rm{cx}_R(k). Moreover, we show that RR is complete intersection if and only if cxR(I,J)\rm{cx}_R(I,J) or tcxR(I,J)\rm{tcx}_R(I,J) is finite if and only if curvR(I,J)\rm{curv}_R(I,J) or tcurvR(I,J)\mathrm{tcurv}_R(I,J) is at most 11. We deduce these results from the corresponding more general results on Burch modules.

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