Let (R,m,k) be a local ring. We establish a totally reflexive analogue of the New Intersection Theorem, provided for every totally reflexive R-module M, there is a big Cohen-Macaulay R-module B_M such that the socle of B_Motimes_RM is zero. When R is
a quasi-specialization of a G-regular local ring or when M has complete intersection dimension zero, we show the existence of such a big Cohen-Macaulay R-module. It is conjectured that if R admits a non-zero Cohen-Macaulay module of finite Gorenstein dimension, then it is Cohen-Macaulay. We prove this conjecture if either R is a quasi-specialization of a G-regular local ring or a quasi-Buchsbaum local ring.
One can iteratively obtain a free resolution of any monomial ideal $I$ by considering the mapping cone of the map of complexes associated to adding one generator at a time. Herzog and Takayama have shown that this procedure yields a minimal resolutio
n if $I$ has linear quotients, in which case the mapping cone in each step cones a Koszul complex onto the previously constructed resolution. Here we consider cellular realizations of these resolutions. Extending a construction of Mermin we describe a regular CW-complex that supports the resolutions of Herzog and Takayama in the case that $I$ has a `regular decomposition function. By varying the choice of chain map we recover other known cellular resolutions, including the `box of complexes resolutions of Corso, Nagel, and Reiner and the related `homomorphism complex resolutions of Dochtermann and Engstrom. Other choices yield combinatorially distinct complexes with interesting structure, and suggests a notion of a `space of cellular resolutions.
Let (R,m) be a commutative Noetherian local ring. It is known that R is Cohen-Macaulay if there exists either a nonzero finitely generated R-module of finite injective dimension or a nonzero Cohen-Macaulay R-module of finite projective dimension. In
this paper, we investigate the Gorenstein analogues of these facts.
