The vanishing of a higher codimension analogue of Hochster's theta invariant (Q1944826)

In [``Asymptotic behavior of Tor over complete intersections and applications'', \url{arXiv:0710.5818}], \textit{H. Dao} defined an invariant for pairs of finitely generated modules over an isolated complete intersection ring of codimension \(c\), and proved that the vanishing of the invariant implies that if \(c\) consecutive Tor modules vanish then so do all subsequent Tor modules. This invariant is the difference of the leading coefficients of two polynomial functions whose functions values compute the lengths of Tor modules in sufficiently high degrees. The paper under review proves that this invariant vanishes for all pairs of modules over graded complete intersection rings of codimension \(c>1\). The authors also conjecture that the vanishing still holds without the homogeneity assumption.