The self-duality conjecture for powers of canonical modules of analytic spread one

Let RR be a standard graded algebra over a field. Assume that RR is reduced and equidimensional, and let ωR\omega_R denote its canonical module, generated in a single degree. The canonical module has analytic spread 1 when its corresponding fractional ideal has analytic spread one.

Canonical-module self-duality conjecture. If ωR\omega_R has analytic spread 11, then some power of ωR\omega_R, regarded as a fractional ideal, is ωR\omega_R-self-dual up to a shift.

This conjecture is suggested by further examples and is proposed independently of the residual-intersection construction. The stated source provides no resolution, so the existence of such a self-dual power remains open in this generality.

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David Eisenbud, Craig Huneke and Bernd Ulrich, “Residual Intersections and Linear Powers”, arXiv:2001.05089 (2021).

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