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A test complex for Gorensteinness

Commutative Algebra 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

Let RR be a commutative noetherian ring with a dualizing complex. By recent work of Iyengar and Krause, the difference between the category of acyclic complexes and its subcategory of totally acyclic complexes measures how far RR is from being Gorenstein. In particular, RR is Gorenstein if and only if every acyclic complex is totally acyclic. In this note we exhibit a specific acyclic complex with the property that it is totally acyclic if and only if RR is Gorenstein.

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@article{arxiv.math/0607355,
  title  = {A test complex for Gorensteinness},
  author = {Lars Winther Christensen and Oana Veliche},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0607355},
  year   = {2007}
}

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Final version, 8 pp. To appear in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. Also available from the authors' homepages at http://www.math.unl.edu/~lchristensen3/ and at http://www.math.utah.edu/~oveliche/