Cyclic covers of rings with rational singularities

Singh, Anurag

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-02-03186-0

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Cyclic covers of rings with rational singularities

Author: Anurag K. Singh
Journal: Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 355 (2003), 1009-1024
MSC (2000): Primary 13A35, 13A02; Secondary 13H10, 14B05
Posted: November 1, 2002
MathSciNet review: 1938743
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Abstract: We examine some recent work of Phillip Griffith on étale covers and fibered products from the point of view of tight closure theory. While it is known that cyclic covers of Gorenstein rings with rational singularities are Cohen-Macaulay, we show this is not true in general in the absence of the Gorenstein hypothesis. Specifically, we show that the canonical cover of a $\mathbb Q$ -Gorenstein ring with rational singularities need not be Cohen-Macaulay.

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