www.elsevier.com/locate/jalgebra Non-Noetherian Cohen–Macaulay rings

In this paper we investigate a property for commutative rings with identity which is possessed by every coherent regular ring and is equivalent to Cohen–Macaulay for Noetherian rings. We study the behavior of this property in the context of ring extensions (of various types) and rings of invariants. © 2006 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved