On the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of the cohomology ring of a group

Symonds, Peter¹

¹ School of Mathematics, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, United Kingdom

Journal of the American Mathematical Society, Tome 23 (2010) no. 4, pp. 1159-1173

Résumé

We prove Benson’s Regularity Conjecture that the regularity of the cohomology of a finite group is zero. We also prove some of his generalisations to other classes of groups.

Détail

DOI : 10.1090/S0894-0347-10-00666-1

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