Cohen-Macaulay modules over some non-reduced curve singularities (Q2630016)

The classification of maximal Cohen-Macaulay (MCM) modules over Noetherian local rings is a difficult problem in general, and it has a long history; we refer the reader to the book [\textit{G. Leuschke} and \textit{R. Wiegand}, Cohen-Macaulay representations. Providence, RI: American Mathematical Society (AMS) (2012; Zbl 1252.13001)] for a detailed overview of the subject. Let \(k\) be an algebraically closed field such that \(\text{char}(k) \neq 2\). The goal of the article under review is to study the MCM representation type of rings of the form \[ k[[x,y,z]]/(xy, y^q - z^2), \] and also the ring \[ k[[x,y,z]]/(xy, z^2) \] (additional results in the case \(\text{char}(k) = 2\) are also obtained; see Remark 2.3 of the article under review for details). The main results of the article are as follows. The authors first prove that the above rings have \textit{tame} MCM representation type (see Section 4 of the article for the definition of tameness). They then go on to give an explicit description of all indecomposable MCM modules over the ring \(k[[x,y,z]]/(xy, z^2)\). Finally, the authors apply the previous results to construct explicit families of \textit{matrix factorizations} associated to the hypersurface ring \(k[[x,y]]/(x^2y^2)\). Matrix factorizations were introduced in [\textit{D. Eisenbud}, Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 260, 35--64 (1980; Zbl 0444.13006)]; roughly speaking, they are the data of two-periodic tails of minimal free resolutions of finitely generated modules over hypersurface rings.