A counterexample to the localization problem for AB rings

Abstract

We construct a complete local Gorenstein ring $R$ of dimension $1$ with a prime ideal $\mathfrak{p}\in \operatorname{Spec}(R)$ such that $R$ is an AB ring, but the localization $R_{\mathfrak{p}}$ is not an AB ring. This settles the localization problem for AB rings posed by Huneke and Jorgensen in the negative.