Remarks on almost Gorenstein rings

Abstract

This paper investigates the relation between the almost Gorenstein properties for graded rings and for local rings. Once R is an almost Gorenstein graded ring, the localization RM of R at the graded maximal ideal M is almost Gorenstein as a local ring. The converse does not hold true in general ([7, Theorems 2.7, 2.8], [8, Example 8.8]). However, it does for one-dimensional graded domains with mild conditions, which we clarify in the present paper. We explore the defining ideals of almost Gorenstein numerical semigroup rings as well.