Gerko proves that if an artinian local ring $(R,\mathfrak{m}_R)$ possesses a sequence of strongly Tor-independent modules of length $n$, then $\mathfrak{m}_R^n\neq 0$. This generalizes readily to Cohen-Macaulay rings. We present a version of this result for non-Cohen-Macaulay rings.

We study the existence of nontrivial semidualizing DG modules over tensor products of DG algebras over a field. In particular, this gives a lower bound on the number of semidualizing DG modules over the tensor product.