Fixed subrings of Noetherian graded regular rings. (Q2488313)

It is known that rings of invariants can have nice homological properties even if they do not have finite global dimension. Watanabe's theorem gives conditions when the fixed subring of a commutative ring under the action of a finite group is a Gorenstein ring. This result was generalized to noncommutative rings with the ``homological determinant'' of the automorphisms in the group. In this paper the authors apply these results to down-up algebras, their extensions, and certain generalized Weyl algebras, and thus expand the class of algebras for which the homological determinant can be easily computed.