Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045 ; Department of Mathematics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas 66045
Abstract:
We prove (the excellent case of) Schreyer's conjecture that a local ring with countable CM type has at most a one-dimensional singular locus. Furthermore, we prove that the localization of a Cohen-Macaulay local ring of countable CM type is again of countable CM type.