The University of Alabama
Thomas Polstra
Assistant Professor · Department of Mathematics
Commutative algebra.
Algebraic geometry.
Prior to joining Alabama, I was a Simons postdoctoral fellow at MSRI, a research associate and lecturer at the University of Virginia, an NSF postdoctoral fellow at the University of Utah, and a graduate student at the University of Missouri.

My research is supported by the National Science Foundation, grant DMS #2502317.
01 / Research
Publications & preprints
Research papers, collaborations,
and expository writing.
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Zariski–Nagata Theorems for Singularities and the Uniform Izumi–Rees Property (opens in a new tab)
To appear in Compositio Mathematica.
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On the applications of Big Cohen–Macaulay Modules and Algebras
To appear in the AMS Contemporary Mathematics volume Lectures on Tight Closure and Its Applications.
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On F-pure Inversion of Adjunction (opens in a new tab)
Part of Higher Dimensional Algebraic Geometry—a volume in honor of V. V. Shokurov.
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On the Equality of Test Ideals (opens in a new tab)
Adv. Math. (2024).
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Local Cohomology Bounds and the Weak Implies Strong Conjecture in dimension 4 (opens in a new tab)
J. Algebra 605 (2022), 37–57.
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F-purity deforms in Q-Gorenstein rings (opens in a new tab)
Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN (2023), no. 24.
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Compatible ideals in Gorenstein rings (opens in a new tab)
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. (2023).
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Local cohomology bounds and test ideals (opens in a new tab)
Permanent preprint due to delay of publication.
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Global F-splitting ratio (opens in a new tab)
J. Algebra 610 (2022), 773–792.
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Covers of rational double points in mixed characteristic (opens in a new tab)
J. Singul. 23 (2021), 127–150.
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A theorem about maximal Cohen–Macaulay modules (opens in a new tab)
Int. Math. Res. Not. IMRN 2022, no. 3, 2086–2094.
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Global Frobenius Betti numbers and Euler characteristic (opens in a new tab)
Michigan Math. J. 71 (2022), no. 3, 533–552.
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F-nilpotent rings and permanence properties (opens in a new tab)
J. Commut. Algebra 15 (2023), no. 4, 559–575.
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Equimultiplicity theory of strongly F-regular rings (opens in a new tab)
Michigan Math. J. Advance Publication 1–20, 2021.
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Nilpotence of Frobenius actions on local cohomology and Frobenius closure of ideals (opens in a new tab)
J. Algebra 529 (2019), 196–225.
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F-signature under birational morphisms (opens in a new tab)
Forum Math. Sigma 7 (2019), e11, 20 pp.
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Continuity of Hilbert–Kunz multiplicity and F-signature (opens in a new tab)
Nagoya Mathematical Journal, 1–24. doi:10.1017/nmj.2018.43.
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Globalizing F-invariants (opens in a new tab)
Adv. Math. 350 (2019), 359–395.
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F-signature and Hilbert–Kunz Multiplicity: a combined approach and comparison (opens in a new tab)
Algebra & Number Theory 12-1 (2018), 61–97.
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Generalizing Serre’s Splitting Theorem and Bass’s Cancellation Theorem via free-basic elements (opens in a new tab)
Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. 146 (2018), no. 4, 1417–1430.
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Uniform bounds in F-finite rings and lower semi-continuity of the F-signature (opens in a new tab)
Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 370 (2018), no. 5, 3147–3169.
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Depths and Stanley depths of path ideals of spines (opens in a new tab)
Involve 9(1) (2016), 155–170.
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Depths and Cohen–Macaulay Properties of Path Ideals (opens in a new tab)
Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 218 (2014), 1537–1543.
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02 / Erdős Institute
Quantitative finance
Program development and instruction for PhDs transitioning into quantitative finance.
I serve as an organizer and instructor for the Erdős Institute's Quant Finance Boot Camp.
The boot camp develops probabilistic and computational tools for financial modeling, moving from stock-path models and volatility to option pricing, Black–Scholes, hedging, Monte Carlo methods, stochastic volatility, and model calibration.
Curriculum vitae
Academic appointments, education, publications, and research support.
03 / Contact
Get in touch
Office
Gordon Palmer Hall, 332CDepartment of Mathematics
The University of Alabama