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Differential operators on a hypersurface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Balwant Singh
Balwant Singh*
Affiliation:
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Homi Bhabha Road, Bombay 400 005, India
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We study differential operators on an affine algebraic variety, especially a hypersurface, in the context of Nakai’s Conjecture. We work over a field k of characteristic zero. Let X be a reduced affine algebraic variety over k and let A be its coordinate ring. Let be the A-module of differential operators of A over k of order ≤ n. Nakai’s Conjecture asserts that if is generated by for every n ≥ 2 then A is regular. In 1973 Mount and Villamayor [6] proved this in the case when X is an irreducible curve. In the general case no progress seems to have been made on the conjecture, except for a result of Brown [2], where the assertion is proved under an additional hypothesis. An interesting result proved by Becker [1] and Rego [8] says that Nakai’s Conjecture implies the Conjecture of Zariski-Lipman, which is still open in the general case and which asserts that if the module of k-derivations of A is A-projective then A is regular.

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Nagoya Mathematical Journal , Volume 103 , October 1986, pp. 67 - 84
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Copyright © Editorial Board of Nagoya Mathematical Journal 1986

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