Abstract. We give conjectures on the possible graded Betti numbers of Cohen-Macaulay modules up to multiplication by positive rational numbers. The idea is that the Betti diagrams should be non-negative linear combinations of pure diagrams. The conjectures are verified in the cases where the structure of resolutions are known, i.e., for modules of codimension two, for Gorenstein algebras of codimension three and for complete intersections. The motivation for the conjectures comes from the Multiplicity conjecture of Herzog, Huneke and Srinivasan.

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We use results of Eisenbud and Schreyer to prove that any Betti diagram of a graded module over a standard graded polynomial ring is a positive linear combination of Betti diagrams of modules with a pure resolution. This implies the multiplicity conjecture of Herzog, Huneke, and Srinivasan for modules that are not necessarily Cohen-Macaulay and also implies a generalized version of these inequalities. We also give a combinatorial proof of the convexity of the simplicial fan spanned by pure diagrams.

Abstract.We give an explicit expression for the Hilbert function of a large class of graded Gorenstein Artin algebras and give a criterion for this function to be unimodal. As a result we obtain an abundance of graded Gorenstein Artin algebras with nonunimodal Hilbert function.

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