Let $R$ be a commutative Noetherian ring, $𝔞$ an ideal of $R$, $M$ an $R$-module and $t$ a non-negative integer. In this paper we show that the class of minimax modules includes the class of $\mathrm{𝒜ℱ}$ modules. The main result is that if the $R$-module ${\mathrm{Ext}}_R^t(R/𝔞,M)$ is finite (finitely generated), $H_{𝔞}^i\left(M\right)$ is $𝔞$-cofinite for all $i<t$ and $H_{𝔞}^t\left(M\right)$ is minimax then $H_{𝔞}^t\left(M\right)$ is $𝔞$-cofinite. As a consequence we show that if $M$ and $N$ are finite $R$-modules and $H_{𝔞}^i\left(N\right)$ is minimax for all $i<t$ then the set of associated prime ideals of the generalized local cohomology module...

This paper studies space curves $C$ of degree $d$ and arithmetic genus $g$, with homogeneous ideal $I$ and Rao module $M={\mathrm{H}}_{*}^1\left(\tilde{I}\right)$, whose main results deal with curves which satisfy ${}_0{\mathrm{Ext}}_R^2(M,M)=0$ (e.g. of diameter, $\mathrm{diam}M\le 2$). For such curves we find necessary and sufficient conditions for unobstructedness, and we compute the dimension of the Hilbert scheme, $\mathrm{H}(d,g)$, at $\left(C\right)$ under the sufficient conditions. In the diameter one case, the necessary and sufficient conditions coincide, and the unobstructedness of $C$ turns out to be equivalent to the...

Let R be a commutative Noetherian ring, I a proper ideal of R, and M be a finitely generated R-module. We provide bounds for the cohomological dimension of the R-module M with respect to the ideal I in several cases.