%0 Journal Article %T A Characterization of Closure Operations That Induce Big Cohen-Macaulay Modules %A Geoffrey D. Dietz %J Mathematics %D 2009 %I arXiv %X The intent of this paper is to present a set of axioms that are sufficient for a closure operation to generate a balanced big Cohen-Macaulay module B over a complete local domain R. Conversely, we show that if such a B exists over R, then there exists a closure operation that satisfies the given axioms. %U http://arxiv.org/abs/0911.0398v2