Bounds for the regularity of local cohomology of bigraded modules

Abstract

Let $M$ be a finitely generated bigraded module over the standard bigraded polynomial ring $S=K[x_1,...,x_m, y_1,...,y_n]$, and let $Q=(y_1,...,y_n)$. The local cohomology modules $H^k_Q(M)$ are naturally bigraded, and the components $H^k_Q(M)_j=\Dirsum_iH^k_Q(M)_{(i,j)}$ are finitely generated graded $K[x_1,...,x_m]$-modules. In this paper we study the regularity of $H^k_Q(M)_j$, and show in several cases that $\reg H^k_Q(M)_j$ is linearly bounded as a function of $j$.