On delta invariants and indices of ideals (Q2317152)

Let \(R\) be a Cohen-Macaulay local ring with a canonical module. The Auslander \(\delta\)-invariant \(\delta_R(M)\) for a finitely generated \(R\)-module \(M\) is defined to be the rank of maximal free summand of the minimal Cohen-Macaulay approximation of \(M\). In the paper under review, the author provides some conditions for an ideal to be a parameter ideal in terms of delta invariants. As an application of this result, he gives upper bounds for orders of Ulrich ideals of \(R\) when \(R\) has Gorenstein punctured spectrum. Also, the author extends the definition of indices to the ideal case, and generalize the result of Avramov-Buchweitz-Iyengar-Miller on the relationship between the index and regularity.