Rings of Frobenius operators

Abstract

AbstractLet R be a local ring of prime characteristic. We study the ring of Frobenius operators ${\mathcal F}(E)$, where E is the injective hull of the residue field of R. In particular, we examine the finite generation of ${\mathcal F}(E)$ over its degree zero component ${\mathcal F}^0(E)$, and show that ${\mathcal F}(E)$ need not be finitely generated when R is a determinantal ring; nonetheless, we obtain concrete descriptions of ${\mathcal F}(E)$ in good generality that we use, for example, to prove the discreteness of F-jumping numbers for arbitrary ideals in determinantal rings.