Commutative Algebra: Syzygies, Multiplicities, and Birational Algebra

Proceedings of a conference held at Mount Holyoke College in July 1992. The major themes are tight closure, Hilbert functions, birational algebra, free resolutions and the homological conjectures, Rees algebras, and local cohomology. Papers include discussions of Grothendieck's localization problem, the Cohen-Macaulay type of perfect ideals, prime ideals in birational extensions of polynomial rings, solid closure, and indecomposable canonical modules and connectedness. No index. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or.