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Chapter 1<br />

Preliminaries<br />

In this chapter we collect some basic facts which will be used throughout <strong>of</strong> this<br />

thesis. Our sources for most <strong>of</strong> this material are: for basic commutative algebra,<br />

[26, 51]; for the theory <strong>of</strong> Cohen-Macaulay <strong>rings</strong> and <strong>modules</strong>, [16]; for homological<br />

algebra, [69]; and for Rees <strong>rings</strong>, [67]. In this dissertation we will be concerned<br />

primarily <strong>with</strong> commutative <strong>rings</strong> R (<strong>with</strong> identity) which are <strong>of</strong> either <strong>of</strong> the following<br />

types<br />

• <strong>Noetherian</strong> local <strong>rings</strong>; or<br />

• homogeneous K-algebras, K a field.<br />

A homogeneous K-algebra (so called a standard graded algebra) is a positively graded<br />

∞<br />

ring R = Ri, where Ri denotes the ith graded component <strong>of</strong> R, such that R0 = K,<br />

i=0<br />

each Ri is a finite dimensional vector space <strong>over</strong> K, and R is generated as a K-<br />

algebra in degree 1: R = R0[R1]. Equivalently, R is <strong>of</strong> the form R = S/I, where<br />

S = K[x1, · · · , xn] is a polynomial ring <strong>over</strong> K <strong>with</strong> deg xi = 1 and I is a homogeneous<br />

1

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