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Semi-regular local rings

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 February 2010

D. G. Northcott
D. G. Northcott
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The University, Sheffield
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In the following pages there will be found an account of the properties of a certain class of local rings which are here termed semi-regular local rings. As this name will suggest, these rings share many properties in common with the more familiar regular local rings, but they form a larger class and the characteristic properties are preserved under a greater variety of transformations. The first occasion on which these rings were studied by the author was in connection with a problem concerning the irreducibility of certain ideals, but about the same time they were investigated in much greater detail by Rees [7] and in quite a different connection. In his discussion, Rees made considerable use of the ideas and techniques of homological algebra. Here a number of the same results, as well as some additional ones, are established by quite different methods. The essential tools used on this occasion are the results obtained by Lech [3] in his important researches concerning the associativity formula for multiplicities. Before describing these, we shall first introduce some notation which will be used consistently throughout the rest of the paper.

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Research Article
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Mathematika , Volume 3 , Issue 2 , December 1956 , pp. 117 - 126
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Copyright © University College London 1956

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