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Multiplicity of the special fiber of blowups

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2006

ALBERTO CORSO
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40506, U.S.A. e-mail: [email protected]
CLAUDIA POLINI
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, U.S.A. e-mail: [email protected]
WOLMER V. VASCONCELOS
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey 08854, U.S.A. e-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

Let $(R, {\frak m})$ be a local Cohen–Macaulay ring and let $I$ be an ${\frak m}$-primary ideal. In this paper we give sharp bounds on the multiplicity of the special fiber ring ${\mathcal F}$ of $I$ in terms of other well-known invariants of $I$. Special attention is then paid in studying when equality holds in these bounds, with a particular interest in the unmixedness or, better, the Cohen–Macaulayness of ${\mathcal F}$.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
2006 Cambridge Philosophical Society

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