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Let be a standard graded algebra over a field. We investigate how the singularities of or affect the -vector of , which is the coefficient of the numerator of its Hilbert series. The most concrete consequence of our work asserts that if satisfies Serre’s condition and has reasonable singularities (Du Bois on the punctured spectrum or -pure), then , …, . Furthermore the multiplicity of is at least . We also prove that equality in many cases forces to be Cohen-Macaulay. The main technical tools are sharp bounds on regularity of certain modules, which can be viewed as Kodaira-type vanishing statements for Du Bois and -pure singularities. Many corollaries are deduced, for instance that nice singularities of small codimension must be Cohen-Macaulay. Our results build on and extend previous work by de Fernex-Ein, Eisenbud-Goto, Huneke-Smith, Murai-Terai and others.more » « less
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Abstract The Burch index is a new invariant of a local ringRwhose positivity implies a kind of linearity in resolutions ofR-modules. We show that ifRhas depth zero and Burch index at least 2, then any non-free 7thR-syzygy contains the residue field as a direct summand. We compute the Burch index in various cases of interest.more » « less
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