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Cancellation of homothetic modules

Let R be a commutative ring, M an R-module, and N a finitely presented R-module such that the intersection of Max(R) and Supp(N) is finite-dimensional and Noetherian. Suppose also that N is homothetic; in other words, suppose that the natural ring homomorphism from R to the R-endomorphism ring of N is surjective. Working under these conditions, we describe various ways to guarantee the existence of a split surjective map in a specified coset of Hom(M,N). Using these results, we yield an extension of Bass's Cancellation Theorem that gives sufficient conditions for cancelling N or, more generally, a direct summand of a direct sum of finitely many copies of N. Since a canonical module of a Cohen-Macaulay ring is always finitely presented and homothetic, our work reveals a cancellation property of canonical modules of Cohen-Macaulay rings with finite-dimensional maximal spectra. Of note is that our results do not rely on any stable rank conditions.