We extend a reciprocity theorem of Stanley about enumeration of integer points in polyhedral cones when one exchanges strict and weak inequalities. The proof highlights the roles played by Cohen–Macaulayness and canonical modules. The extension raises the issue of whether a Cohen–Macaulay complex of dimension d embedded piecewise-linearly in R is necessarily a d-ball. This is observed to be tru...

The main theorem of this paper complements the tame-wild dichotomy for commutative Noetherian rings, obtained by Klingler and Levy [14]–[16]. They gave a complete classification of all finitely generated modules over Dedekind-like rings (cf. Definition 1.1) and showed that, over any ring that is not a homomorphic image of a Dedekind-like ring, the category of finite-length modules has wild repr...

Two formulas for the multiplicity of the fiber cone F (I) = ⊕∞n=0I /mI of an m-primary ideal of a d-dimensional Cohen-Macaulay local ring (R,m) are derived in terms of the mixed multiplicity ed−1(m|I), the multiplicity e(I) and superficial elements. As a consequence, the Cohen-Macaulay property of F (I) when I has minimal mixed multiplicity or almost minimal mixed multiplicity is characterized ...