Ext functors, support varieties and Hilbert polynomials over complete intersection rings

Let $(A,\mathfrak{m})$ be a complete intersection of dimension $d \geq 1$ and codimension $c \geq 1$. Let $I$ be an $\mathfrak{m}$-primary ideal and let $M$ be a finitely generated $A$-module. For $i \geq 1$ let $\psi_i^I(M)$ be the degree of the polynomial type function $n \rightarrow \ell(Ext^i_A(M, A/I^n))$. We show that for $j = 0, 1$ and for all $i \gg 0$ we have $\psi_{2i +j}^I(M)$ is a constant and let $r_0^I(M)$ and $r_1^I(M)$ denote these constant values. Set $r^I(M) = \max\{ r_0^I(M), r_1^I(M) \}$. We show that $r^I(M)$ is an invariant of $I, A$ and the support variety of $M$. We set the degree of the zero polynomial to be $-\infty$. If $r^I(M) \leq 0$ then we show that $reg \ G_I(\Omega^i(M))$ for $i \geq 0$ is bounded. We give an application of this result to syzgetic Artin-Rees property of $M$. We also give several examples which illustrate our results.