Mixed multiplicities of Divisorial Filtrations

Steven Dale Cutkosky

Published 2019-05-04Version 1

Suppose that $R$ is an excellent local domain with maximal ideal $m_R$. The theory of multiplicities and mixed multiplicities of $m_R$-primary ideals extends to (possibly non Noetherian) filtrations of $R$ by $m_R$-primary ideals, and many of the classical theorems for $m_R$-primary ideals continue to hold for filtrations. The celebrated theorems involving inequalities continue to hold for filtrations, but the good conclusions that hold in the case of equality for $m_R$-primary ideals do not hold for filtrations. In this article, we consider multiplicities and mixed multiplicities of $R$ by $m_R$-primary divisorial filtrations. We show that some important theorems on equalities of multiplicities and mixed multiplicities of $m_R$-primary ideals, which are not true in general for filtrations, are true for divisorial filtrations. We prove that a theorem of Rees showing that if there is an inclusion of $m_R$-primary ideals $I\subset I'$ with the same multiplicity then $I$ and $I'$ have the same integral closure also holds for divisorial filtrations. This theorem does not hold for arbitrary filtrations. We show that the Teissier Rees Sharp Katz theorem on equality in the Minkowski inequality holds for divisorial filtrations in an excellent domain of dimension two. We also show that the mixed multiplicities of divisorial filtrations are anti-positive intersection products on a suitable normal scheme $X$ birationally dominating $R$, when $R$ is an algebraic local domain.