Linear maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over strict complete intersections (Q810593)

Let (R,m) be a Cohen-Macaulay local ring. A maximal Cohen-Macaulay (MCM for short) R-module M is called linear if \(n(M)=e(M)\). (In general n(M)\(\leq e(M)\). Here n(M) denotes the minimal number of generators and e(M) the multiplicity.) The purpose of the paper is to show that strict complete intersections have linear MCM modules. The main result is obtained as a corollary to the following: Assume R has a linear MCM module and let \(f\in m\) be an element whose leading form \(f^*\) in \(gr_ m(R)\) is a nonzerodivisor. Then R/(f) has a linear MCM module. - The proof is done by making use of a matrix factorization of f. A matrix factorization of f is given by using a bijective correspondence between the equivalence classes of matrix factorizations and the isomorphism classes of nonzero Clifford modules. In the appendix the case of dimension one is treated. It is shown that R is of finite linear CM-representation type if and only if the first quadratic transform of R is of finite CM-representation type. The list of all the one-dimensional complete local domains over an algebraically closed field of characteristic zero, which are of finite linear CM- representation type, is given. In the introduction of the paper motivations and known results of the theory of linear MCM modules are stated, which is very convenient.