A note on symmetry in the vanishing of Ext

Avramov and Buchweitz proved that for finitely generated modules $M$ and $N$ over a complete intersection local ring $R$, $\Ext^i_R(M,N)=0$ for all $i\gg 0$ implies $\Ext^i_R(N,M)=0$ for all $i\gg 0$. In this note we give some generalizations of this result. Indeed we prove the above mentioned result when (1) $M$ is finitely generated and $N$ is arbitrary, (2) $M$ is arbitrary and $N$ has finite length and (3) $M$ is complete and $N$ is finitely generated.