Directed unions of local monoidal transforms and GCD domains

Abstract

Let [Formula: see text] be a regular local ring of dimension [Formula: see text]. A local monoidal transform of [Formula: see text] is a ring of the form [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is a regular parameter, [Formula: see text] is a regular prime ideal of [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] is a maximal ideal of [Formula: see text] lying over [Formula: see text] In this paper, we study some features of the rings [Formula: see text] obtained as infinite directed union of iterated local monoidal transforms of [Formula: see text]. In order to study when these rings are GCD domains, we also provide results in the more general setting of directed unions of GCD domains.