Some results on test elements

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In the continuing quest to prove that tight closure commutes with localization, the authors tackle the properties of localizing test elements and test ideals. \textit{K. E. Smith} had proved that test ideals localize for complete local Gorenstein reduced rings, and that parameter test ideals (which equal test ideals in Gorenstein rings) localize for complete local Cohen-Macaulay reduced rings [Invent. Math. 115, 41-60 (1994; Zbl 0820.13007); Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 347, 3453-3472 (1995; Zbl 0849.13003)]. The authors generalize this, with one version of the generalization showing that test ideals localize for reduced Cohen-Macaulay \(\mathbb{Q}\)-Gorenstein rings. The authors use the following broader definition for a ring \(R\) to be \(\mathbb{Q}\)-Gorenstein: \(R\) is a Cohen-Macaulay domain, not necessarily normal, and has a canonical ideal one of whose powers has the property that the intersection of its height one components is a principal ideal. If \(R\) is normal, the last condition says that the canonical ideal is torsion in the class group. The authors also generalize the previous existence statements for the completely stable test ideal from the paper by \textit{M. Hochster} and \textit{C. Huneke} [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 346, 1-62 (1994; Zbl 0844.13002)], and use the gamma construction from the cited paper to prove that the completely stable test ideal in a local excellent weakly F-regular domain has height at least 3.











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