A criterion of Cohen Macaulayness of the form module

Abstract

Let $\mathfrak{q}$ be an ideal of a Noetherian local ring $(A,\mathfrak{m})$ and $M$ a non-zero finitely generated $A$-module. We present a criterion of Cohen-Macaulayness of the form module $G_M(\mathfrak{q})$ in terms of (non-)vanishing of a variation of local cohomology introduced in \cite{KSch}.