• Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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• v.43 no.4
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• pp.871-883
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• 2006

We show that the Auslander index is the same as the column invariant over Gorenstein local rings. We also show that Ding's conjecture ([13]) holds for an isolated non-Gorenstein ring A satisfying a certain condition which seems to be weaker than the condition that the associated graded ring of A is Cohen-Macaulay.