The Grothendieck-Serre formula for the difference between the Hilbert function and Hilbert polynomial of a graded algebra is generalized for bigraded standard algebras. This is used to get a similar formula for the difference between the Bhattacharya function and Bhattacharya polynomial of two m-primary ideals I and J in a local ring (A, m) in terms of local cohomology modules of Rees algebras ...

In this survey paper we first present the main properties of sequentially Cohen-Macaulay modules. Some basic examples are provided to help reader with quickly getting acquainted topic. We then discuss two generalizations notion sequential Cohen-Macaulayness which inspired by a theorem J\"urgen Herzog and third author.

We give several characterizations for the linearity property for a maximal Cohen-Macaulay module over a local or graded ring, as well as proofs of existence in some new cases. In particular, we prove that the existence of such modules is preserved when taking Segre products, as well as when passing to Veronese subrings in low dimensions. The former result even yields new results on the existenc...

For a finitely generated A-module M we define the dimension filtration M = {Mi}0≤i≤d, d = dimA M, where Mi denotes the largest submodule of M of dimension ≤ i. Several properties of this filtration are investigated. In particular, in case the local ring (A,m) possesses a dualizing complex, then this filtration occurs as the filtration of a spectral sequence related to duality. Furthermore, we c...

This paper determines when the Krull-Schmidt property holds for all finitely generated modules and for maximal Cohen-Macaulay modules over one-dimensional local rings with finite Cohen-Macaulay type. We classify all maximal CohenMacaulay modules over these rings, beginning with the complete rings where the Krull-Schmidt property is known to hold. We are then able to determine when the Krull-Sch...