On asymptotic vanishing behavior of local cohomology (Q2182404)

Let \(R\) be a standard graded algebra over a field \(k\), with irrelevant maximal ideal \(\mathfrak{m}\), and \(I\) a homogeneous \(R\)-ideal. As the authors mention in the abstract, they study the asymptotic vanishing behavior of the graded components of the local cohomology modules \(\{H_{\mathfrak{m}}^i(R/I^n)\}_{n\in\mathbb{N}}\) for \(i<\dim R/I\). They show that, when \(\mathrm{char}\, k = 0\), \(R/I\) is Cohen-Macaulay, and \(I\) is a complete intersection locally on \(\mathrm{Spec}\, R\setminus\{\mathfrak{m}\}\), the lowest degrees of the modules \(\{H_{\mathfrak{m}}^i(R/I^n)\}_{n\in\mathbb{N}}\) are bounded by a linear function whose slope is controlled by the generating degrees of the dual of \(I/I^2\). Their result is a direct consequence of a related bound for symmetric powers of locally free modules. If no assumptions are made on the ideal or the field \(k\), we show that the complexity of the sequence of lowest degrees is at most polynomial, provided they are finite. Their methods also provide a result on stabilization of maps between local cohomology of consecutive powers of ideals.