Graded annihilators and tight closure test ideals (Q2654074)

The paper under review represents an application to tight closure theory of the author's work on graded annihilators of modules over the Frobenius skew polynomial ring in positive characteristic [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 359, No. 9, 4237--4258 (2007; Zbl 1130.13002)]. Let \((R, m, k)\) be a commutative local ring of positive prime characteristic \(p >0\). The main goal of the paper is to show that if the injective hull of \(k\), \(E_R(k)\), admits an injective Frobenius action then the ring \(R\) is \(F\)-pure and \(R\) has a tight closure element for modules. In preparation towards the main result of the paper, the author recovers and generalizes a result of Enescu and Hochster that states that if \(R\) is quasi-Gorenstein, \(F\)-pure and \(d\)-dimensional then \(H^d_m(R)\) admits finitely many submodules \(N\) that are stable under Frobenius (i.e. \(F(N) \subset N\)) [\textit{F. Enescu, M. Hochster}, Algebra Number Theory 2, No. 7, 721--754 (2008; Zbl 1190.13003)]. A new and interesting element of the paper is the construction of new modules that admit a Frobenius action from old ones, called place extensions by the author. An application of the main result is a generalization of a result by \textit{J. C. Vassilev} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 350, No.10, 4041--4051 (1998; Zbl 0913.13005)] on test ideals of \(F\)-pure rings that are homomorphic images of \(F\)-finite regular rings to the complete case.