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    On the growth of the Betti sequence of the canonical module

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    We study the growth of the Betti sequence of the canonical module of a Cohen-Macaulay local ring. It is an open question whether this sequence grows exponentially whenever the ring is not Gorenstein. We answer the question of exponential growth affirmatively for a large class of rings, and prove that the growth is in general not extremal. As an application of growth, we give criteria for a Cohen-Macaulay ring possessing a canonical module to be Gorenstein.Comment: 12 pages. version 2: includes omitted author contact informatio

    Nonvanishing cohomology and classes of Gorenstein rings

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    We give counterexamples to the following conjecture of Auslander: given a finitely generated module MM over an Artin algebra Λ\Lambda, there exists a positive integer nMn_M such that for all finitely generated Λ\Lambda-modules NN, if \Ext_{\Lambda}^i(M,N)=0 for all i≫0i\gg 0, then \Ext_{\Lambda}^i(M,N)=0 for all i≥nMi\geq n_M. Some of our examples moreover yield homologically defined classes of commutative local rings strictly between the class of local complete intersections and the class of local Gorenstein rings.Comment: 16 page

    Tate (co)homology via pinched complexes

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    For complexes of modules we study two new constructions, which we call the pinched tensor product and the pinched Hom. They provide new methods for computing Tate homology and Tate cohomology, which lead to conceptual proofs of balancedness of Tate (co)homology for modules over associative rings. Another application we consider is in local algebra. Under conditions of vanishing of Tate (co)homology, the pinched tensor product of two minimal complete resolutions yields a minimal complete resolution.Comment: Final version; 23 pp. To appear in Trans. Amer. Math. So
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