We give several characterizations for the linearity property for a maximal Cohen-Macaulay module over a local or graded ring, as well as proofs of existence in some new cases. In particular, we prove that the existence of such modules is preserved when taking Segre products, as well as when passing to Veronese subrings in low dimensions. The former result even yields new results on the existenc...

For a finitely generated A-module M we define the dimension filtration M = {Mi}0≤i≤d, d = dimA M, where Mi denotes the largest submodule of M of dimension ≤ i. Several properties of this filtration are investigated. In particular, in case the local ring (A,m) possesses a dualizing complex, then this filtration occurs as the filtration of a spectral sequence related to duality. Furthermore, we c...

This paper determines when the Krull-Schmidt property holds for all finitely generated modules and for maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over one-dimensional local rings with finite Cohen-Macaulay type. We classify all maximal CohenMacaulay modules over these rings, beginning with the complete rings where the Krull-Schmidt property is known to hold. We are then able to determine when the Krull-Sch...

We describe some recent work concerning Gorenstein liaison of codimension two subschemes of a projective variety. Applications make use of the algebraic theory of maximal Cohen–Macaulay modules, which we review in an Appendix.