Multigraded regularity, a*-invariant and the minimal free resolution

In recent years, two different multigraded variants of Castelnuovo–Mumford regularity have been developed, namely multigraded regularity, defined by the vanishing of multigraded pieces of local cohomology modules, and the resolution regularity vector, defined by the multi-degrees in a minimal free resolution. In this paper, we study the relationship between multigraded regularity and the resolution regularity vector. Our method is to investigate multigraded variants of the usual a*-invariant. This, in particular, provides an effective approach to examining the vanishing of multigraded pieces of local cohomology modules with respect to different multigraded ideals.