This research began as an effort to determine exactly which one-dimensional local rings have indecomposable finitely generated modules of arbitrarily large constant rank. The approach, which uses a new construction of indecomposable modules via the bimodule structure on certain Ext groups, turned out to be effective mainly for hypersurface singularities. The argument was eventually replaced by ...

This paper addresses problems related to the existence of arithmetic Macaulayfications of projective schemes. Let Y be the blow-up of a projective scheme X = Proj R along the ideal sheaf of I ⊂ R. It is known that there are embeddings Y ∼ = Proj k[(I e) c ] for c ≥ d(I)e + 1, where d(I) denotes the maximal generating degree of I, and that there exists a Cohen-Macaulay ring of the form k[(I e) c...

Let  be a local Cohen-Macaulay ring with infinite residue field,  an Cohen - Macaulay module and  an ideal of  Consider  and , respectively, the Rees Algebra and associated graded ring of , and denote by  the analytic spread of  Burch’s inequality says that  and equality holds if  is Cohen-Macaulay. Thus, in that case one can compute the depth of associated graded ring of  as  In this paper we ...

Let R be a Cohen-Macaulay ring and M a maximal CohenMacaulay R-module. Inspired by recent striking work by Iyama, BurbanIyama-Keller-Reiten and Van den Bergh we study the question of when the endomorphism ring of M has finite global dimension via certain conditions about vanishing of Ext modules. We are able to strengthen certain results by Iyama on connections between a higher dimension versio...