In this note, we introduce the notion of Gorenstein algebras. Let R be a commutative Gorenstein ring and A a noetherian R-algebra. We call A a Gorenstein R-algebra if A has Gorenstein dimension zero as an R-module (see [2]), add(D(AA)) = PA, where D = HomR(−, R), and Ap is projective as an Rpmodule for all p ∈ Spec R with dim Rp < dim R. Note that if dim R = ∞ then a Gorenstein R-algebra A is p...