Our goal is to determine when the trivial extensions of commutative rings by modules are Cohen-Macaulay in the sense of Hamilton and Marley. For this purpose, we provide a generalization of the concept of Cohen-Macaulayness of rings to modules.
Let $fa$ be an ideal of a local ring $(R,fm)$ and $M$ a finitely generated $R$-module. We investigate the structure of the formal local cohomology modules ${vpl}_nH^i_{fm}(M/fa^n M)$, $igeq 0$. We prove several results concerning finiteness propertie
s of formal local cohomology modules which indicate that these modules behave very similar to local cohomology modules. Among other things, we prove that if $dim Rleq 2$ or either $fa$ is principal or $dim R/faleq 1$, then $Tor_j^R(R/fa,{vpl}_nH^i_{fm}(M/fa^n M))$ is Artinian for all $i$ and $j$. Also, we examine the notion $fgrade(fa,M)$, the formal grade of $M$ with respect to $fa$ (i.e. the least integer $i$ such that ${vpl}_nH^i_{fm}(M/fa^n M) eq 0$). As applications, we establish a criterion for Cohen-Macaulayness of $M$, and also we provide an upper bound for cohomological dimension of $M$ with respect to $fa$.
Let $I(G)$ be the edge ideal of a simple graph $G$. In this paper, we will give sufficient and necessary combinatorial conditions of $G$ in which the second symbolic and ordinary power of its edge ideal are Cohen-Macaulay (resp. Buchsbaum, generalize
d Cohen-Macaulay). As an application of our results, we will classify all bipartite graphs in which the second (symbolic) powers are Cohen-Macaulay (resp. Buchsbaum, generalized Cohen-Macaulay).
We study the singularities of integral models of Shimura varieties and moduli stacks of shtukas with parahoric level structure. More generally our results apply to the Pappas-Zhu and Levin mixed characteristic parahoric local models, and to their equ
al characteristic analogues. For any such local model we prove under minimal assumptions that the entire local model is normal with reduced special fiber and, if $p>2$, it is also Cohen-Macaulay. This proves a conjecture of Pappas and Zhu, and shows that the integral models of Shimura varieties constructed by Kisin and Pappas are Cohen-Macaulay as well.
As a stable analogue of degenerations, we introduce the notion of stable degenerations for Cohen-Macaulay modules over a Gorenstein local algebra. We shall give several necessary and/or sufficient conditions for the stable degeneration. These conditi
ons will be helpful to see when a Cohen-Macaulay module degenerates to another.