Department of Mathematics and Information Sciences, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Minami-Ohsawa 1-1, Hachioji, Tokyo 192-0397, Japan
Abstract:
In the present article, the author shows that Faltings' annihilator theorem holds for any Noetherian ring if is universally catenary; all the formal fibers of all the localizations of are Cohen-Macaulay; and the Cohen-Macaulay locus of each finitely generated -algebra is open.