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.

This research began as an effort to determine exactly which one-dimensional local rings have indecomposable finitely generated modules of arbitrarily large constant rank. The approach, which uses a new construction of indecomposable modules via the bimodule structure on certain Ext groups, turned out to be effective mainly for hypersurface singularities. The argument was eventually replaced by ...

For a skew version of graded (A ∞ ) hypersurface singularity A, we study the stable category maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over A. As consequence, see that A has countably infinite Cohen–Macaulay representation type and is not noncommutative isolated singularity.