Cohen-Macaulay Rings

by Winfried Bruns and H. Jürgen Herzog

In the last two decades Cohen-Macaulay rings and modules have been central topics in commutative algebra. This book meets the need for a thorough, self-contained introduction to the homological and combinatorial aspects of the theory of Cohen-Macaulay rings, Gorenstein rings, local cohomology, and canonical modules. A separate chapter is devoted to Hilbert functions (including Macaulay's theorem) and numerical invariants derived from them. The authors...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521566746
• ISBN13: 9780521566742
• Release Date: July 1998
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 468 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.0"