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Over a commutative local Cohen–Macaulay ring, we view and study the category of maximal Cohen–Macaulay modules as a ring with several objects. We compute the global dimension of this category and thereby extend some results of Iyama and Leuschke.
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Holm, H. The Category of Maximal Cohen–Macaulay Modules as a Ring with Several Objects. Mediterr. J. Math. 13, 885–898 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00009-015-0557-8
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