An excellent 𝐹-pure ring of prime characteristic has a big tight closure test element

Sharp, Rodney

doi:10.1090/S0002-9947-10-05166-4

An excellent $F$-pure ring of prime characteristic has a big tight closure test element
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by Rodney Y. Sharp

Trans. Amer. Math. Soc. 362 (2010), 5455-5481

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/S0002-9947-10-05166-4

Published electronically: May 3, 2010

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Abstract:

In two recent papers, the author has developed a theory of graded annihilators of left modules over the Frobenius skew polynomial ring over a commutative Noetherian ring $R$ of prime characteristic $p$, and has shown that this theory is relevant to the theory of test elements in tight closure theory. One result of that work was that, if $R$ is local and the $R$-module structure on the injective envelope $E$ of the simple $R$-module can be extended to a structure as a torsion-free left module over the Frobenius skew polynomial ring, then $R$ is $F$-pure and has a tight closure test element. One of the central results of this paper is the converse, namely that, if $R$ is $F$-pure, then $E$ has a structure as a torsion-free left module over the Frobenius skew polynomial ring; a corollary is that every $F$-pure local ring of prime characteristic, even if it is not excellent, has a tight closure test element. These results are then used, along with embedding theorems for modules over the Frobenius skew polynomial ring, to show that every excellent (not necessarily local) $F$-pure ring of characteristic $p$ must have a so-called ‘big’ test element.

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