Abstract: | When is a Gorenstein ideal of grade in a local ring , results of Boffi and Sánchez, and of Kustin and Ulrich show that for each one can construct in a canonical way a finite free complex that is ``approximately" a resolution for the ideal . Kustin and Ulrich also provide a sufficient condition that is acyclic, and a sufficient condition that is a resolution of . We complete these two acyclicity criteria by showing that the corresponding sufficient conditions are also necessary. |