On the Cohen-Macaulay property of the fiber cone of ideals with reduction number at most one (Q4938529)

Let \((A, \mathfrak m)\) be a Noetherian local ring and \(I\) an ideal in~\(A\). The fiber cone of \(I\) is the graded ring \(F_{\mathfrak m}(I) = \bigoplus_{n \geq 0} I^n/ \mathfrak m I^n\). It is the coordinate ring of the closed fiber of the blowing-up of \(\text{Spec} A\) with respect to~\(I\). Let \(G\) be the associated graded ring of~\(I\). Then \(F_{\mathfrak m}(I) = G/ \mathfrak m G\). Although the Cohen-Macaulay property of \(F_{\mathfrak m}(I)\) is independent of the one of \(G\), the authors find that \(F_{\mathfrak m}(I)\) and \(G\) are Cohen-Macaulay simultaneously in special case. \textit{S. Goto, Y. Nakamura}, and \textit{K. Nishida} [Am. J. Math. 118. No.~6, 1197-1213 (1996: Zbl 0878.13002)] gave a criterion for \(G\) to be Cohen-Macaulay containing the reduction number. In the present paper the authors show that the criterion of Goto, Nakamura, and Nishida implies the Cohen-Macaulayness of \(F_{\mathfrak m}(I)\) if the reduction number is at most one. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0921.00043].