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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 10 February 2025
The notion of Vasconcelos invariant, known in the literature as v-number, of a homogeneous ideal in a polynomial ring over a field was introduced in 2020 to study the asymptotic behavior of the minimum distance of projective Reed–Muller type codes. We initiate the study of this invariant for graded modules. Let R be a Noetherian $\mathbb {N}$-graded ring and M be a finitely generated graded R-module. The v-number
$v(M)$ can be defined as the least possible degree of a homogeneous element x of M for which
$(0:_Rx)$ is a prime ideal of R. For a homogeneous ideal I of R, we mainly prove that
$v(I^nM)$ and
$v(I^nM/I^{n+1}M)$ are eventually linear functions of n. In addition, if
$(0:_M I)=0$, then
$v(M/I^{n}M)$ is also eventually linear with the same leading coefficient as that of
$v(I^nM/I^{n+1}M)$. These leading coefficients are described explicitly. The result on the linearity of
$v(M/I^{n}M)$ considerably strengthens a recent result of Conca which was shown when R is a domain and
$M=R$, and Ficarra–Sgroi where the polynomial case is treated.