In this short note we give an elementary combinatorial argument, showing that the conjecture of J. Fernández de Bobadilla, I. Luengo-Velasco, A. Melle-Hernández and A. Némethi [Proc. London Math. Soc. 92 (2006), 99-138, Conjecture 1] follows from Theorem 5.4 of Brodzik and Livingston [arXiv:1304.1062] in the case of rational cuspidal curves with two critical points.

Let $(R,𝔪)$ be a complete Noetherian local ring, $I$ an ideal of $R$ and $M$ a nonzero Artinian $R$-module. In this paper it is shown that if $𝔭$ is a prime ideal of $R$ such that $dimR/𝔭=1$ and $\left(0{:}_M𝔭\right)$ is not finitely generated and for each $i\ge 2$ the $R$-module ${\mathrm{Ext}}_R^i(M,R/𝔭)$ is of finite length, then the $R$-module ${\mathrm{Ext}}_R^1(M,R/𝔭)$ is not of finite length. Using this result, it is shown that for all finitely generated $R$-modules $N$ with $Supp\left(N\right)\subseteq V\left(I\right)$ and for all integers $i\ge 0$, the $R$-modules ${\mathrm{Ext}}_R^i(N,M)$ are of finite length, if and only if, for all finitely generated $R$-modules $N$ with $Supp\left(N\right)\subseteq V\left(I\right)$ and...