We prove that sequentially Cohen-Macaulay rings in positive characteristic, as well as sequentially Cohen-Macaulay Stanley-Reisner rings in any characteristic, have trivial Lyubeznik table. Some other configurations of Lyubeznik tables are also provided depending on the deficiency modules of the ring.

Introduction 1 0.1. Associated primes 2 0.2. Depth 2 1. Regular local rings and their cohomological properties 4 1.1. Notions of dimension 4 1.2. Dualizing functor 5 1.3. Local rings 6 1.4. Serre’s theorem on regular local rings 6 1.5. Cohomology of D when global dimension is finite 8 2. Depth 8 2.1. Property (Sk) 8 2.2. Serre’s criterion of normality 10 2.3. Cohen-Macaulay modules 11 3. Diviso...