On the structure of the canonical model of the Rees algebra and the associated graded ring of an ideal.
In this note we give a description of a morphism related to the structure of the canonical model of the Rees algebra R(I) of an ideal I in a local ring. As an application we obtain Ikeda's criteria for the Gorensteinness of R(I) and a result of Herzog-Simis-Vasconcelos characterizing when the canonical module of R(I) has the expected form.