Tight closure does not commute with localization

Pages 571-588 from Volume 171 (2010), Issue 1 by Holger Brenner, Paul Monsky

Abstract

We give an example showing that tight closure does not commute with localization.

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Mathematical Subject Classification
Primary: ,
DOI
http://doi.org/10.4007/annals.2010.171.571
MR
2630050
Zbl
05712738
Milestones
Received: 30 October 2007
Accepted: 18 May 2009
Published online: 17 March 2010

Authors

Holger Brenner

Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Universität Osnabrück, Albrechtstr. 28A, 49069 Osnabrück, Germany

Paul Monsky

Mathematics Department, >MS 050, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA 02254-9110, United States