Characterization and finite descent of local cohomological invariants
Bradley Dirks, Sebastian Olano, Debaditya Raychaudhury
Abstract
We provide simple ``left-inverse characterizations'' of the recently introduced singularity invariants $c(Z)$, $w(Z)$, and ${\rm HRH}(Z)$ of an equidimensional variety $Z$. Combining this with a trace morphism, we establish descent results of these invariants for finite surjective morphisms.
