LOCALLY COMPLETE INTERSECTION IDEALS IN COHEN-MACAULAY LOCAL RINGS

Throughout this paper, all rings are assumed to be commutative with identity. By a local ring (R, m), we mean a Noetherian ring R which has the unique maximal ideal m. By dim(R) we always mean the Krull dimension of R. Let I be an ideal in a ring R and t an indeterminate over R. Then the Rees algebra R[It] is defined to be(omitted)