On the index of reducibility of parameter ideals: the stable and limit values (Q1987358)

Let \((R,\mathfrak m)\) be a noetherian local ring and \(M\) be a finitely generated of Krull dimension \(d\). The authors in this paper study the index of reducibility of parameter ideals on \(M\). They show that if \(\underline{x}=x_1,\dots,x_d\) is a \(C\)-system of parameters of \(M\), then the index of reducibility of ideal \((\underline{x})\) on \(M\) is independent of the choice of the \(C\)-system of papameters \(\underline{x}\). They denote this invariant by \(\mathcal{N}_R(M)\) and provide characterizations of (sequentially) Cohen-Macaulay modules in terms of this invariant. In an special case, they compute \(\mathcal{N}_R(M)\) when \(M\) is unmixed, \(\dim M=3\) and \(\mathrm{depth }M=2\).