English

Integrally closed rings in birational extensions of two-dimensional regular local rings

Commutative Algebra 2017-04-26 v1

Abstract

Let DD be an integrally closed local Noetherian domain of Krull dimension 2, and let ff be a nonzero element of DD such that fDfD has prime radical. We consider when an integrally closed ring HH between DD and DfD_f is determined locally by finitely many valuation overrings of DD. We show such a local determination is equivalent to a statement about the exceptional prime divisors of normalized blow-ups of DD, and, when DD is analytically normal, this property holds for DD if and only if it holds for the completion of DD. This latter fact, along with MacLane's notion of key polynomials, allows us to prove that in some central cases where DD is a regular local ring and ff is a regular parameter of DD, then HH is determined locally by a single valuation. As a consequence, we show that if HH is also the integral closure of a finitely generated DD-algebra, then the exceptional prime ideals of the extension H/DH/D are comaximal. Geometrically, this translates into a statement about intersections of irreducible components in the closed fiber of the normalization of a proper birational morphism.

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@article{arxiv.1211.6054,
  title  = {Integrally closed rings in birational extensions of two-dimensional regular local rings},
  author = {Bruce Olberding and Francesca Tartarone},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1211.6054},
  year   = {2017}
}

Comments

32 pp., to appear in Math. Proc. Camb. Phil. Soc