Published online by Cambridge University Press: 24 October 2008
1. The determination of an explicit formula for the postulation of a multiple variety of given characters for primals of sufficiently large order is one which seems to have received attention only in special cases. The postulation of a multiple curve for surfaces in ordinary space is known*, and Roth† has obtained the postulation of a multiple surface in [4], free from singularities, for primals in that space. Apart from these results, and the trivial case of isolated multiple points, the only general results seem to be those of Torelli‡ and Giambelli§ for the case in which the multiple variety is a Vh which is the complete intersection of r − h primals in [r].