Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Lecture 1. Basic Notions
Lecture 2. Cohomology
Lecture 3. Resolutions and Derived Functors
Lecture 4. Limits
Lecture 5. Gradings, Filtrations, and Grobner Bases
Lecture 6. Complexes from a Sequence of Ring Elements
Lecture 7. Local Cohomology
Lecture 8. Auslander-Buchsbaum Formula and Global Dimension
Lecture 9. Depth and Cohomological Dimension
Lecture 10. Cohen-Macaulay Rings
Lecture 11. Gorenstein Rings
Lecture 12. Connections with Sheaf Cohomology
Lecture 13. Projective Varieties
Lecture 14. The Hartshorne-Lichtenbaum Vanishing Theorem
Lecture 15. Connectedness
Lecture 16. Polyhedral Applications
Lecture 17. D-modules
Lecture 18. Local Duality Revisited
Lecture 19. De Rham Cohomology
Lecture 20. Local Cohomology over Semigroup Rings
Lecture 21. The Frobenius Endomorphism
Lecture 22. Curious Examples
Lecture 23. Algorithmic Aspects of Local Cohomology
Lecture 24. Holonomic Rank and Hypergeometric Systems
Appendix. Injective Modules and Matlis Duality
Bibliography
Index