Factorial extensions of regular local rings and invariants of finite groups.
Let (R,m) be a Noetherian local ring and let I C R be an ideal. This paper studies the question of when m I is integrally closed. Particular attention is focused on the case R is a regular local ring and I is a reduced ideal. This question arose through a question posed by Eisenbud and Mazur on the existence of evolutions.
In this paper we characterize commutative rings with finite dimensional classical ring of quotients. To illustrate the diversity of behavior of these rings we examine the case of local rings and FPF rings. Our results extend earlier work on rings with zero-dimensional rings of quotients.
We show that non-flatness of a morphism φ:X→ Y of complex-analytic spaces with a locally irreducible target of dimension n manifests in the existence of vertical components in the n-fold fibred power of the pull-back of φ to the desingularization of Y. An algebraic analogue follows: Let R be a locally (analytically) irreducible finite type ℂ-algebra and an integral domain of Krull dimension n, and let S be a regular n-dimensional algebra of finite type over R (but not necessarily a finite R-module),...