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Openness of the Regular Locus and Generators for Module Categories

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This work clarifies the relationship between the openness of the regular locus of a commutative Noetherian ring R and the existence of generators for the category of finitely generated R-modules, the corresponding bounded derived category, and for the singularity category of R.

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Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful to Shiro Goto, Kazuhiko Kurano, and Jun-ichi Nishimura for valuable suggestions. Finally, the authors thank the referee for reading the paper carefully and giving helpful comments.

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The first author was partially supported by the National Science Foundation, under grant DMS-1700985. The second author was partially supported by JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research 16K05098 and JSPS Fund for the Promotion of Joint International Research 16KK0099.

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Iyengar, S.B., Takahashi, R. Openness of the Regular Locus and Generators for Module Categories. Acta Math Vietnam 44, 207–212 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40306-018-0294-8

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