Let
R be a local Gorenstein ring with infinite residue field of arbitrary characteristic. Let
I be an
R-ideal with
g=htI>0, analytic spread
ℓ, and let
J be a minimal reduction of
I. We further assume that
I satisfies
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depthR/IjdimR/I−j+1 for
1jℓ−g. The question we are interested in is whether
core(I)=Jn+1:∑bI(J,b)n for
n0. In the case of analytic spread Polini and Ulrich show that this is true with even weaker assumptions [C. Polini, B. Ulrich, A formula for the core of an ideal, Math. Ann. 331 (2005) 487–503, Theorem 3.4]. We give a negative answer to this question for higher analytic spreads and suggest a formula for the core of such ideals.