Analytically irreducible ring

In algebra, an analytically irreducible ring is a local ring whose completion has no zero divisors. Geometrically this corresponds to a variety with only one analytic branch at a point.

Zariski (1948) proved that if a local ring of an algebraic variety is a normal ring, then it is analytically irreducible. There are many examples of reduced and irreducible local rings that are analytically reducible, such as the local ring of a node of an irreducible curve, but it is hard to find examples that are also normal. Nagata (1958, 1962, Appendix A1, example 7) gave such an example of a normal Noetherian local ring that is analytically reducible.