The classification of special Cohen-Macaulay modules

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Abstract: In this paper we completely classify all the special Cohen-Macaulay (=CM) modules corresponding to the exceptional curves in the dual graph of the minimal resolutions of all two dimensional quotient singularities. In every case we exhibit the specials explicitly in a combinatorial way. Our result relies on realizing the specials as those CM modules whose first Ext group vanishes against the ring R, thus reducing the problem to combinatorics on the AR quiver; such possible AR quivers were classified by Auslander and Reiten. We also give some general homological properties of the special CM modules and their corresponding reconstruction algebras.


The authors give several homological characterizations of special Cohen-Macaulay modules and completely classify all of them corresponding to the exceptional curves in the dual graph of the minimal resolutions of all two dimensional quotient singularities. Let \(R\) be a complete local normal domain of dimension two with canonical module \(\omega\), \(\text{SCM}(R)\) be the category of special Cohen-Macaulay modules and \(\Omega \text{CM}(R)\) be the category consisting of first syzygy modules of some Cohen-Macaulay module. The authors give the following homological characterizations of specials: For a Cohen-Macaulay module \(X\), the following conditions are equivalent. {\parindent=7mm \begin{itemize}\item[(a)]\(X\) is special Cohen-Macaulay. \item[(b)]\(\text{Ext}^2_{R}(\text{Tr} X, \omega)=0\). \item[(c)]\(\Omega \text{Tr} X\) is Cohen-Macaulay. \item[(d)]\(\text{Ext}^{1}_{R}(X,R)=0\). \item[(e)]\(\text{Hom}_{R}(X,R) \in \Omega \text{CM}(R)\). \end{itemize}} In particular, there exists a duality \(\text{Hom}_{R}(-,R) : \text{SCM}(R) \cong \Omega \text{CM}(R)\) and the syzygy functor \(\Omega\) gives the equivalence \(\underline{\text{SCM}}(R) \tilde{\rightarrow} \underline{\Omega \text{CM}}(R)\). This characterization means that the specials are realized as Cohen-Macaulay modules whose first Ext group vanishes, and the problem is reduced to combinatorics on the Auslander-Reiten quiver. The authors also prove that the global dimension of the reconstruction algebras which is the endomorphism algebras of additive generators in \(\text{SCM}(R)\) is either two or three, and classify the specials for all small finite subgroups of \(\mathrm{GL}(2, \mathbb{C})\).




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