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It seems more natural to define the category to consist of those finitely generated $R$-modules whose generic fiber is 1-dimensional (without choosing a preferred basis). I use this viewpoint below.

If $R$ is Gorenstein then you can take $X=R$ since the dualizing complex for a Gorenstein local ring is concentrated in a single degree and as such as an invertible module (so the Hom above is the same as an RHom). This conceptually explains your second case with $R \cap K_0 = O_{K_0}$ for a subfield $K_0$ over which $K$ is quadratic since in such cases $R$ is Gorenstein (as after completion over $O_{K_0}$ we are confronted with a "quadratic order" over a discrete valuation ring, which is always monogenic and hence easily checked to be Gorenstein).

In general $R$ is Cohen-Macaulay, so it is tempting to try to take $X$ to be its dualizing module (as the dualizing complex for a CM local ring is supported in a single degree), but if not projective (equivalently, $R$ not Gorenstein) then presumably the discrepancy between Hom and RHom may create some problems. No doubt the experts in commutative algebra can supply a counterexample or explain why it is a non-issue in these circumstances.

In fact, one is led to wonder (in the absence of any motivation being given for the question) whether the setup is simply "wrong": it is always true by taking $X$ to be the dualizing module (put in degree 0) that on the derived category $D^b_c(R)$ of "bounded complexes of $R$-modules with finitely generated homologies" that $T \mapsto {\rm{RHom}}(T,X)$ is an involutory auto-equivalence and ${\rm{RHom}}(X,X) = R$. That is, the dualizing module always works if you work in the appropriate derived category setting (which eliminates the 1-dimensionality restriction on the generic fiber, etc.). In the Gorenstein case we can apply ${\rm{H}}^0$'s throughout to recover the more concrete assertion with ordinary Hom's in that case. Is that not adequate for whatever motivated the question?

It seems more natural to define the category to consist of those finitely generated $R$-modules whose generic fiber is 1-dimensional (without choosing a preferred basis). I use this viewpoint below.

If $R$ is Gorenstein then you can take $X=R$ since the dualizing complex for a Gorenstein local ring is concentrated in a single degree and as such as an invertible module (so the Hom above is the same as an RHom). This conceptually explains your second case with $R \cap K_0 = O_{K_0}$ for a subfield $K_0$ over which $K$ is quadratic since in such cases $R$ is Gorenstein (as after completion over $O_{K_0}$ we are confronted with a "quadratic order" over a discrete valuation ring, which is always monogenic and hence easily checked to be Gorenstein).

In general $R$ is Cohen-Macaulay, so it is tempting to try to take $X$ to be its dualizing module (as the dualizing complex for a CM local ring is supported in a single degree), but if not projective (equivalently, $R$ not Gorenstein) then presumably the discrepancy between Hom and RHom may create some problems. No doubt the experts in commutative algebra can supply a counterexample or explain why it is a non-issue in these circumstances.

It seems more natural to define the category to consist of those finitely generated $R$-modules whose generic fiber is 1-dimensional (without choosing a preferred basis). I use this viewpoint below.

If $R$ is Gorenstein then you can take $X=R$ since the dualizing complex for a Gorenstein local ring is concentrated in a single degree and as such as an invertible module (so the Hom above is the same as an RHom). This conceptually explains your second case with $R \cap K_0 = O_{K_0}$ for a subfield $K_0$ over which $K$ is quadratic since in such cases $R$ is Gorenstein (as after completion over $O_{K_0}$ we are confronted with a "quadratic order" over a discrete valuation ring, which is always monogenic and hence easily checked to be Gorenstein).

In general $R$ is Cohen-Macaulay, so it is tempting to try to take $X$ to be its dualizing module (as the dualizing complex for a CM local ring is supported in a single degree), but if not projective (equivalently, $R$ not Gorenstein) then presumably the discrepancy between Hom and RHom may create some problems. No doubt the experts in commutative algebra can supply a counterexample or explain why it is a non-issue in these circumstances.

In fact, one is led to wonder (in the absence of any motivation being given for the question) whether the setup is simply "wrong": it is always true by taking $X$ to be the dualizing module (put in degree 0) that on the derived category $D^b_c(R)$ of "bounded complexes of $R$-modules with finitely generated homologies" that $T \mapsto {\rm{RHom}}(T,X)$ is an involutory auto-equivalence and ${\rm{RHom}}(X,X) = R$. That is, the dualizing module always works if you work in the appropriate derived category setting (which eliminates the 1-dimensionality restriction on the generic fiber, etc.). In the Gorenstein case we can apply ${\rm{H}}^0$'s throughout to recover the more concrete assertion with ordinary Hom's in that case. Is that not adequate for whatever motivated the question?

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It seems more natural to define the category to consist of those finitely generated $R$-modules whose generic fiber is 1-dimensional (without choosing a preferred basis). I use this viewpoint below.

If $R$ is Gorenstein then you can take $X=R$ since the dualizing complex for a Gorenstein local ring is concentrated in a single degree and as such as an invertible module (so the Hom above is the same as an RHom). This conceptually explains your second case with $R \cap K_0 = O_{K_0}$ for a subfield $K_0$ over which $K$ is quadratic since in such cases $R$ is Gorenstein (as after completion over $O_{K_0}$ we are confronted with a "quadratic order" over a discrete valuation ring, which is always monogenic and hence easily checked to be Gorenstein).

In general $R$ is Cohen-Macaulay, so it is tempting to try to take $X$ to be its dualizing module (as the dualizing complex for a CM local ring is supported in a single degree), but if not projective (equivalently, $R$ not Gorenstein) then presumably the discrepancy between Hom and RHom may create some problems. No doubt the experts in commutative algebra can supply a counterexample or explain why it is a non-issue in these circumstances.