Torsion in tensor products over one-dimensional domains

Abstract

Over a one-dimensional Gorenstein local domain $R$, let $E$ be the endomorphism ring of the maximal of $R$, viewed as a subring of the integral closure $\overline R$. If there exist finitely generated $R$-modules $M$ and $N$, neither of them free, whose tensor product is torsion-free, we show that $E$ must be local with the same residue field as $R$.