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A test complex for Gorensteinness

Lars Winther Christensen, Oana Veliche

math.ACarXiv:math/0607355

Abstract

Let R be a commutative noetherian ring with a dualizing complex. By recent work of Iyengar and Krause, the difference between the category of acyclic complexes and its subcategory of totally acyclic complexes measures how far R is from being Gorenstein. In particular, R is Gorenstein if and only if every acyclic complex is totally acyclic. In this note we exhibit a specific acyclic complex with the property that it is totally acyclic if and only if R is Gorenstein.

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