On a theorem of F. S. Macaulay on colon ideals.
In this paper, we use a characterization of -modules such that to characterize Cohen-Macaulay rings in terms of various dimensions. This is done by setting to be the local cohomology functor of with respect to the maximal ideal where is the Krull dimension of .
Partial intersection subschemes of Pr of codimension c were used to furnish various graded Betti numbers which agree with a fixed Hilbert function. Here we study some further properties of such schemes; in particular, we show that they are not in general licci and we give a large class of them which are licci. Moreover, we show that all partial intersections are glicci. We also show that for partial intersections the first and the last Betti numbers, say m and p respectively, give bounds each other;...