The second Brauer-Thrall conjecture for isolated singularities of excellent hypersurfaces (Q1814200)

Let \(R\) be an excellent local Henselian \(k\)-algebra (with \(k\) an algebraically closed field of arbitrary characteristic) whose completion \(R^{}\) is isomorphic to \(k[[x_ 0,\ldots,x_ n]]/(f)\), where \(f\) has an isolated singularity at the origin. The aim of this paper is to extend and to give new proofs of certain results of \textit{E. Dieterich} [Comment. Math. Helv. 62, 654-676 (1987; Zbl 0654.14002) and in Singularities, representation of algebras, and vector bundles, Proc. Symp., Lambrecht/Pfalz 1985, Lect. Notes Math. 1273, 244-264 (1987; Zbl 0632.14004)]. As a sample we mention the following. Theorem. If \(R\) is not of finite representation type, there is a strictly increasing sequence \(\{n_ i\}_{i\geq 1}\) of positive integers such that for all \(i\) there are infinitely many isomorphism classes of indecomposable maximal Cohen-Macaulay \(R\)-modules of rank \(n_ i\). Dieterich proved this result in the case \(R=k[[x_ 0,\ldots,x_ n]]/(f)\) and \(\hbox{char}(k)\neq 2\). The authors are able to prove it in arbitrary characteristic and for \(R\) Henselian as above.