Extended plus closure and colon-capturing (Q2575720)

The author presents three results concerning the colon-capturing property for extended plus closures in excellent local domains of mixed characteristic. The two first results are variants of a theorem proved by the author in a previous paper [Ann. Math. (2) 156, No. 2, 695--712 (2002; Zbl 1076.13511)]. First, he shows that the extended plus closure has the colon-capturing property for arbitrary sets of three parameters in an excellent normal local domain of mixed characteristic of any dimension. As a second variant, he proves that for a three-dimensional complete domain \(R\) of mixed characteristic, the second local cohomology of the integral closure of \(R\) in an algebraic closure of its quotient field is annihilated by arbitrarily small powers of every non-unit. The third result of this paper generalizes a theorem proved by \textit{M. Hochster} [J. Algebra 254, No. 2, 395--408 (2002; Zbl 1078.13506)] which holds in dimension at most 3 in the following form: Theorem. Let \(R\to S\) be a local homomorphism of complete local domains. Let \(v\) be a compatible valuation on \(R\) and \(S\). Further suppose the \(v\)-augmented closure satisfies the colon-capturing property for integral extensions of \(R\) and \(S\). Then there is a commutative diagram: \[ \begin{matrix} B & \rightarrow & C\\ \uparrow && \uparrow\\ R & \rightarrow & S\end{matrix} \] where \(B\) is a balanced big Cohen-Macaulay algebra over \(R\) and \(C\) is a balanced big Cohen-Macaulay algebra over \(S\).