Abelian extensions of equicharacteristic regular rings need not be Cohen-Macaulay

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Main Authors: Maithani, Aryaman, Singh, Anurag K., Sridhar, Prashanth
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author Maithani, Aryaman
Singh, Anurag K.
Sridhar, Prashanth
author_facet Maithani, Aryaman
Singh, Anurag K.
Sridhar, Prashanth
contents By a theorem of Roberts, the integral closure of a regular local ring in a finite abelian extension of its fraction field is Cohen-Macaulay, provided that the degree of the extension is coprime to the characteristic of the residue field. We show that the result need not hold in the absence of this requirement on the characteristic: for each positive prime integer $p$, we construct polynomial rings over fields of characteristic $p$, whose integral closure in an elementary abelian extension of order $p^2$ is not Cohen-Macaulay. Localizing at the homogeneous maximal ideal preserves the essential features of the construction.
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spellingShingle Abelian extensions of equicharacteristic regular rings need not be Cohen-Macaulay
Maithani, Aryaman
Singh, Anurag K.
Sridhar, Prashanth
Commutative Algebra
13B05 (Primary), 13A50, 13H05, 13H10 (Secondary)
By a theorem of Roberts, the integral closure of a regular local ring in a finite abelian extension of its fraction field is Cohen-Macaulay, provided that the degree of the extension is coprime to the characteristic of the residue field. We show that the result need not hold in the absence of this requirement on the characteristic: for each positive prime integer $p$, we construct polynomial rings over fields of characteristic $p$, whose integral closure in an elementary abelian extension of order $p^2$ is not Cohen-Macaulay. Localizing at the homogeneous maximal ideal preserves the essential features of the construction.
title Abelian extensions of equicharacteristic regular rings need not be Cohen-Macaulay
topic Commutative Algebra
13B05 (Primary), 13A50, 13H05, 13H10 (Secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.19800