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Introduction Throughout this paper, A denotes a noetherian local ring with maximal ideal m and M a finitely generated A-module with d: = DEFINITION. M is called a generalized Cohen-Macaulay (abbr. C-M) module if l(HUM)) < oo for i = 0, •••, d -1, where / denotes the length and H τ m (M) the ith local cohomology module of M with respect to m. The notion of generalized C-M modules was introduced in [6]. It has its roots in a problem of D.A. Buchsbaum. Roughly speaking, this problem says that the difference I(q; M) := l(M/qM) -β(q; M) takes a constant value for all parameter ideals q of M, where e(q; M) denotes the multiplicity of M relative to q [5]. In general, that is not true [30]. However, J. Stύckrad and W. Vogel found that modules satisfying this problem enjoy many interesting properties which are similar to the ones of C-M modules and gave them the name Buchsbaum modules [22], [23]. That led in [6] to the study of modules M with the property I(M):= sup/(q;M) < oo where q runs through all parameter ideals of M, and it turned out that they are just generalized C-M modules. The class of generalized C-M module is rather large. For instance, most of the considered geometric local rings such as the ones of isolated singularities or of the vertices of affine cones over projective curves are Received February 15, 1983. 2 NGO VIET TRUNG generalized C-M rings. So it would be of interest to establish a theory of generalized C-M modules. Although the theory of Buchsbaum modules has been rapidly developed by works of S. Goto, P. Schenzel, J. Stύckrad, W. Vogel (see the monograph [20], little is known about generalized C-M modules. Besides, it lacks something which connects both kinds of modules together. If one is acquainted enough with the few references on generalized C-M modules [6], [11], [18], one might have the notice that almost all properties of systems of parameters (abbr. s.o.p.'s) of Buchsbaum modules also hold for s.o.p.'s of generalized C-M modules which are contained in a large power of the maximal ideal. For instance, if M is a generalized C-M module, there exists a positive integer n such that for all parameter ideals qcim n of M. So, with regard to the origin of generalized C-M modules, one should try to explain the above phenomenon in studying s.o.p.'s a ly , a d of M with the property Such s.o.p.'s will be called standard.

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