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Chapter 5<br />

Bass <strong>numbers</strong> <strong>of</strong> Local<br />

Cohomology <strong>modules</strong><br />

In this chapter we study the Bass <strong>numbers</strong>, the dual notion <strong>of</strong> the <strong>Betti</strong> <strong>numbers</strong>,<br />

<strong>of</strong> local cohomology <strong>modules</strong>. In fact it is an important problem in local cohomology<br />

to determine when the set <strong>of</strong> associated primes <strong>of</strong> such <strong>modules</strong> is finite, and so when<br />

the Bass <strong>numbers</strong> <strong>of</strong> them is finite. Here we are interested in the following contexts:<br />

• Finiteness <strong>of</strong> the support (and associated primes) <strong>of</strong> local cohomology <strong>modules</strong><br />

• Artinian local cohomology <strong>modules</strong><br />

Let R be a commutative <strong>Noetherian</strong> ring, a an ideal <strong>of</strong> R and M a finitely gener-<br />

ated R-module. Let t be a non-negative integer. We proved that<br />

• If H i a(M) has finite support for all i < t, then Ass (H t a(M)) is finite.<br />

• If H i a(M) is Artinian for all i < t, then HomR(R/a, H t a(M)) need not be Artinian<br />

but it has a finitely generated submodule N such that HomR(R/a, H t a(M))/N<br />

is Artinian.<br />

For the second issue note that it is already known that if the local cohomology<br />

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