Rationality for arbitrary closure operations and the test ideal of full extended plus closure

Abstract

We extend the notion of F-rationality to other closure operations, inspired by the work of Smith, Epstein and Schwede, and Ma and Schwede, which describe F-rationality in terms of the canonical module and top local cohomology module. We give conditions for a closure operation cl on a Cohen-Macaulay complete local ring under which cl-rationality is equivalent to parameter ideals being cl-closed. We also demonstrate that full extended plus closure as defined by Heitmann and weak full extended plus closure as defined by the first named author have no big test elements.

arXiv comment13 pages, comments welcome, revised to add results on when a cl-rational ring is a normal domain