Deformation of Artinian Algebras and Jordan Type

Book excerpt: This volume contains the proceedings of the AMS-EMS-SMF Special Session on Deformations of Artinian Algebras and Jordan Type, held July 18?22, 2022, at the Universit‚ Grenoble Alpes, Grenoble, France. Articles included are a survey and open problems on deformations and relation to the Hilbert scheme; a survey of commuting nilpotent matrices and their Jordan type; and a survey of Specht ideals and their perfection in the two-rowed case. Other articles treat topics such as the Jordan type of local Artinian algebras, Waring decompositions of ternary forms, questions about Hessians, a geometric approach to Lefschetz properties, deformations of codimension two local Artin rings using Hilbert-Burch matrices, and parametrization of local Artinian algebras in codimension three. Each of the articles brings new results on the boundary of commutative algebra and algebraic geometry.