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Existence of birational small Cohen-Macaulay modules over biquadratic extensions in mixed characteristic

Commutative Algebra 2021-05-11 v2 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

Let SS be an unramified regular local ring of mixed characteristic two and RR the integral closure of SS in a biquadratic extension of its quotient field obtained by adjoining roots of sufficiently general square free elements f,gSf,g\in S. Let S2S^2 denote the subring of SS obtained by lifting to SS the image of the Frobenius map on S/2SS/2S. When at least one of f,gS2f,g\in S^2, we characterize the Cohen-Macaulayness of RR and show that RR admits a birational small Cohen-Macaulay module. It is noted that RR is not automatically Cohen-Macaulay in case f,gS2f,g\in S^2 or if f,gS2f,g\notin S^2.

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@article{arxiv.2103.12023,
  title  = {Existence of birational small Cohen-Macaulay modules over biquadratic extensions in mixed characteristic},
  author = {Prashanth Sridhar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.12023},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

Final version, to appear in Journal of Algebra; minor changes, unabbreviated title, updated references