TY - BOOK AU - Huneke,Craig TI - Tight closure and its applications SN - 082180412X U1 - 512.4 PY - 2000/// CY - New York PB - American Mathematical Society KW - Commutative rings KW - Complexes KW - Anneaux commutatifs N1 - Contains bibliography; Introduction Relationship chart A prehistory of tight closure Basic notions Test elements and the persistence of tight closure Colon-capturing and direct summands of regular rings F-rational rings and rational singularities Integral closure and tight closure The Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity Big Cohen-Macaulay algebras Big Cohen-Macaulay algebras II Applications of big Cohen-Macaulay algebras Phantom homology Uniform Artin-Rees theorems The localization problem Regular base change Appendix 1: The notion of tight closure in equal characteristic zero (by M. Hochster) Appendix 2: Solutions to the exercises ER -