English

Testing for the Gorenstein property

Commutative Algebra 2015-12-31 v3

Abstract

We answer a question of Celikbas, Dao, and Takahashi by establishing the following characterization of Gorenstein rings: a commutative noetherian local ring (R,m)(R,\mathfrak m) is Gorenstein if and only if it admits an integrally closed m\mathfrak m-primary ideal of finite Gorenstein dimension. This is accomplished through a detailed study of certain test complexes. Along the way we construct such a test complex that detect finiteness of Gorenstein dimension, but not that of projective dimension.

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@article{arxiv.1504.08014,
  title  = {Testing for the Gorenstein property},
  author = {Olgur Celikbas and Sean Sather-Wagstaff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.08014},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

14 pages; v.2 includes minor revisions; v.3 includes some clarifications, minor corrections, a few new examples, and a question

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