Local rings of finite Cohen-Macaulay type (Q1265557)

The paper deals with ascent and descent properties of finite \(CM\)-type. Let \((R,m)\) be a local ring. If the completion \(\widehat R\) has finite \(CM\)-type it is shown that \(R\) has also finite \(CM\)-type. The converse is shown to be true if \(R\) is Cohen-Macaulay and \(\widehat R\) has an isolated singularity. Another result of the paper shows that if \(k\) is a field and \(k^s\) is the separable closure of \(k\), then the hypersurface \(k[[x_0,\dots,x_d]]/(f)\) has finite \(CM\)-type if and only if \(k^s[[x_0,\dots,x_d]]/(f)\) has finite \(CM\)-type.