A characterization of local Noetherian domains which admit only finitely many star operations: the infinite residue field case (Q402664)

This paper is the continuation of the authors' earlier paper [\textit{E. Houston} et al., J. Algebra 366, 78--93 (2012; Zbl 1262.13041)]. Let \(R\) be an integral domain and \(S(R)\) the set of star operations on it. Their study of Noetherian domains which admit only finitely many star operations was motivated by the result, proved by \textit{H. Bass} [Math. Z. 82, 8--28 (1963; Zbl 0112.26604)] and later by \textit{E. Matlis} [J. Algebra 8, 1--33 (1968; Zbl 0191.32301)], that a local Noetherian domain \((R,M)\) satisfies the property that each nonzero fractional ideal is divisorial (i.e., \(|S(R)|=1\)) if and only if \(R\) has dimension one and \(M^{-1}\) is a 2-generated \(R\)-module. It was proved that if \(R\) is a Noetherian domain, not a field, with \(|S(R)|<\infty\), then it has dimension one. In the paper under review, they show that if \((R,M)\) is a one-dimensional local Noetherian domain with infinite residue field, then \(|S(R)|\in \{1,2,3,4,5,7,9,11,\dots;\infty\}\). Further, the authors obtain that if \(R\) is a local Noetherian domain with infinite residue field which admit only finitely many star operations, then a positive integer \(n\) is equal to \(|S(R)|\) if and only if \(n=2,4\) or an odd positive integer.