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HILBERT COEFFICIENTS AND THE DEPTHS OF ASSOCIATED GRADED RINGS

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 August 1997

SAM HUCKABA  and
THOMAS MARLEY
SAM HUCKABA
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida 32306-3027, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
THOMAS MARLEY
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska 68588, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

This work was motivated in part by the following general question: given an ideal I in a Cohen–Macaulay (abbreviated to CM) local ring R such that dim R/I=0, what information about I and its associated graded ring can be obtained from the Hilbert function and Hilbert polynomial of I? By the Hilbert (or Hilbert–Samuel) function of I, we mean the function HI(n) =λ(R/In) for all n[ges ]1, where λ denotes length. Samuel [23] showed that for large values of n, the function HI(n) coincides with a polynomial PI(n) of degree d=dim R. This polynomial is referred to as the Hilbert, or Hilbert–Samuel, polynomial of I. The Hilbert polynomial is often written in the form

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where e0(I), [ctdot ], ed(I) are integers uniquely determined by I. These integers are known as the Hilbert coefficients of I.

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Research Article
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Journal of the London Mathematical Society , Volume 56 , Issue 1 , August 1997 , pp. 64 - 76
Copyright
The London Mathematical Society 1997

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