Artinian Gorenstein algebras that are free extensions over k[t]/(t^n), and Macaulay duality

Abstract

T. Harima and J. Watanabe studied the Lefschetz properties of free extension Artinian algebras $C$ over a base $A$ with fiber $B$. The free extensions are deformations of the usual tensor product; when $C$ is also Gorenstein, so are $A$ and $B$, and it is natural to ask for the relation among the Macaulay dual generators for the algebras. Writing a dual generator $F$ for $C$ as a homogeneous ``polynomial'' in $T$ and the dual variables for $B$, and given the dual generator for $B$, we give sufficient conditions on $F$ that ensure that $C$ is a free extension of $A={\sf k}[t]/(t^n)$ with fiber $B$. We give examples exploring the sharpness of the statements. We also consider a special set of coinvariant algebras $C$ which are free extensions of $A$, but which do not satisfy the sufficient conditions of our main result.