A few years ago, Huneke and Leuschke proved a theorem which solved a conjecture of Schreyer. It asserts that an excellent Cohen-Macaulay local ring of countable Cohen-Macaulay type which is complete or has uncountable residue field has at most a one-dimensional singular locus. In this paper, it is verified that the assumption of the excellent property can be removed, and the theorem is consider...

We prove that the generic quantized coordinate ringOq(G) is Auslander-regular, Cohen-Macaulay, and catenary for every connected semisimple Lie group G. This answers questions raised by Brown, Lenagan, and the first author. We also prove that under certain hypotheses concerning the existence of normal elements, a noetherian Hopf algebra is Auslander-Gorenstein and Cohen-Macaulay. This provides a...

We provide a generalization of pseudo-Frobenius numbers numerical semigroups to the context simplicial affine semigroups. In this way, we characterize Cohen-Macaulay type semigroup ring K[S]. define S, type(S), in terms some Apéry sets S and show that it coincides with ring, when K[S] is Cohen-Macaulay. If d-dimensional embedding dimension at most d+2, then type(S)?2. Otherwise, type(S) might b...

This paper addresses problems related to the existence of arithmetic Macaulayfications of projective schemes. Let Y be the blow-up of a projective scheme X = Proj R along the ideal sheaf of I ⊂ R. It is known that there are embeddings Y ∼ = Proj k[(I e) c ] for c ≥ d(I)e + 1, where d(I) denotes the maximal generating degree of I, and that there exists a Cohen-Macaulay ring of the form k[(I e) c...

Let A be a Noetherian local ring with the maximal ideal m and d = dim A. Let Q be a parameter ideal in A. Let I = Q : m. The problem of when the equality I = QI holds true is explored. When A is a Cohen-Macaulay ring, this problem was completely solved by A. Corso, C. Huneke, C. Polini, and W. Vasconcelos [CHV, CP, CPV], while nothing is known when A is not a Cohen-Macaulay ring. The present pu...

Let R be a Cohen-Macaulay ring and M a maximal CohenMacaulay R-module. Inspired by recent striking work by Iyama, BurbanIyama-Keller-Reiten and Van den Bergh we study the question of when the endomorphism ring of M has finite global dimension via certain conditions about vanishing of Ext modules. We are able to strengthen certain results by Iyama on connections between a higher dimension versio...

We study initial algebras of determinantal rings, defined by minors of generic matrices, with respect to their classical generic point. This approach leads to very short proofs for the structural properties of determinantal rings. Moreover, it allows us to classify their Cohen-Macaulay and Ulrich ideals.

This paper is a brief survey on various methods to classify maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over hypersurface rings. The survey focuses on the contributions in this topic of Dorin Popescu together with his collaborators.

The Chern numbers of the title are the first coefficients (after the multiplicities) of the Hilbert functions of various filtrations of ideals of a local ring (R, m). For a Noetherian (good) filtration A of m-primary ideals, the positivity and bounds for e1(A) are well-studied if R is Cohen-Macaulay, or more broadly, if R is a Buchsbaum ring or mild generalizations thereof. For arbitrary geomet...

We consider a commutative ring R graded by an arbitrary abelian group G, and define the grade of a G-homogeneous ideal I on R in terms of vanishing of C̆ech cohomology. By defining the dimension in terms of chains of homogeneous prime ideals and supposing R satisfies a.c.c. on G-homogeneous ideals and has a unique G-homogeneous maximal ideal, we can define graded versions of the depth of R and C...