Indecomposable modules over one-dimensional noetherian rings (Q861868)

All rings in this paper are assumed to be ring-orders, i.e. one dimensional, reduced commutative noetherian rings \(R\) for which the integral closure \(\tilde{R}\) in its quotient ring is finitely generated as an \(R\)-module and all modules are finitely generated and torsion-free. The objective of the article is to find bounds on the ranks of certain indecomposable modules when such bounds exist. The main theorem describes the bounds on the ranks of indecomposable modules of constant rank over a ring-order \(R\) which contains a field not of characteristic 2, 3 or 5, has perfect residue field and bounded representation type with the spread of the ranks not too great. The possible ranks are shown to be 1,2,3,4 or 6. If the vector space dimensions of the localizations \(M_{P}\) are between \(n\) and \(2n-8\) for every minimal prime ideal \(P\) of \(R\), then \(M\) is shown to have a non-trivial decomposition. For each integer \(n \geq 8,\) a semilocal ring-order of bounded representation type and an indecomposable module \(M\) of rank between \(n\) and \(2n-7\) is exhibited. If the equicharacteristic assumptions are dropped in the main theorem and \(n \geq 18,\) then \(M\) has a direct summand of constant rank 12. The proof of this is not given because it is similar to that of the main theorem but highly computational in nature. The paper is concluded by a number of open questions.