%0 Journal Article %A Andradas Heranz, Carlos %A Díaz-Cano Ocaña, Antonio %T Closed stability index of excellent henselian local rings %D 2004 %@ 0025-5874 %U https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/49812 %X We show that the closed stability index of an excellent henselian local ring of real dimension d>2 with real closed residue field is (s) over bar (A) = 1/2d(d+1). When d=2 it is shown that the value of can be either 2 or 3 and give characterizations of each of these values in terms of the relation of A with its normalization and in terms of the real spectrum of A. %~