The finiteness of the Gorenstein dimension for Artin algebras

In [A. Skowronski, S. Smalø and D. Zacharia, On the finiteness of the global dimension for Artinian rings, J. Algebra 251(1) (2002) 475–478], the authors proved that an Artin algebra [Formula: see text] with infinite global dimension has an indecomposable module with infinite projective and infinite injective dimension, giving a new characterization of algebras with finite global dimension. We prove in this paper that an Artin algebra [Formula: see text] that is not Gorenstein has an indecomposable [Formula: see text]-module with infinite Gorenstein projective dimension and infinite Gorenstein injective dimension, which gives a new characterization of algebras with finite Gorenstein dimension. We show that this gives a proper generalization of the result in [A. Skowronski, S. Smalø and D. Zacharia, On the finiteness of the global dimension for Artinian rings, J. Algebra 251(1) (2002) 475–478] for Artin algebras.

Complete Intersection Flat Dimension and the Intersection Theorem

Any finitely generated module M over a local ring R is endowed with a complete intersection dimension CI-dim RM and a Gorenstein dimension G-dim RM. The Gorenstein dimension can be extended to all modules over the ring R. This paper presents a similar extension for the complete intersection dimension, and mentions the relation between this dimension and the Gorenstein flat dimension. In addition, we show that in the intersection theorem, the flat dimension can be replaced by the complete intersection flat dimension.