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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 01 March 2017
Let (A, ${\mathfrak{m}$ ) be a Cohen–Macaulay local ring of dimension d and let I ⊆ J be two
${\mathfrak{m}$ -primary ideals with I a reduction of J. For i = 0,. . .,d, let e i J (A) (e i I (A)) be the ith Hilbert coefficient of J (I), respectively. We call the number c i (I, J) = e i J (A) − e i I (A) the ith relative Hilbert coefficient of J with respect to I. If G I (A) is Cohen–Macaulay, then c i (I, J) satisfy various constraints. We also show that vanishing of some c i (I, J) has strong implications on depth G J n (A) for n ≫ 0.