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CASTELNUOVO–MUMFORD REGULARITY AND ANALYTIC DEVIATION OF IDEALS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 October 2000

NGÔ VIÊT TRUNG
Affiliation:
Institute of Mathematics, Box 631, Bò Hô, Hanoi, Vietnam
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Abstract

Let (A, [mfr ]) be a local ring. For convenience we will assume throughout this paper that the residue field of A is infinite.

Let I be an ideal of A. An ideal JI is called a reduction of I if JIn = In+1 for some integer n. The least number n with this property is denoted by rJ (I). A reduction of I is said to be minimal if it does not contain any other reduction of I. The reduction number r(I) of I is the minimum of rJ(I) for all minimal reductions J of I. A minimal reduction of I usually has better properties than I. It can be viewed as an approximation of I and the reduction number is a measure for how it is different from I. The minimal number of generators of every minimal reduction of I is equal to the dimension of the fibre ring [oplus ]n[ges ]0In/[mfr ]In. This invariant is called the analytic spread of I and denoted by [lscr ](I). All these notions have played an important role in ideal theory since their introduction by Northcott and Rees [16].

Type
Research Article
Copyright
The London Mathematical Society 2000

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