Matlis duals of top Local Cohomology Modules

In the first section of this paper we present generalizations of known results on the set of associated primes of Matlis duals of local cohomology modules; we prove these generalizations by using a new technique. In section 2 we compute the set of associated primes of the Matlis dual of $\LCMo ^{d-1}_J(R)$, where $R$ is a $d$-dimensional local ring and $J\subseteq R$ an ideal such that $\dim (R/J)=1$ and $\LCMo ^d_J(R)=0$.