SYMBOLIC ANALYTIC SPREAD: UPPER BOUNDS AND APPLICATIONS

The symbolic analytic spread of an ideal $I$ is defined in terms of the rate of growth of the minimal number of generators of its symbolic powers. In this article, we find upper bounds for the symbolic analytic spread under certain conditions in terms of other invariants of $I$ . Our methods also work for more general systems of ideals. As applications, we provide bounds for the (local) Kodaira dimension of divisors, the arithmetic rank, and the Frobenius complexity. We also show sufficient conditions for an ideal to be a set-theoretic complete intersection.

ARITHMETIC RANK, COHOMOLOGICAL DIMENSION AND FILTER REGULAR SEQUENCES

Let I be an ideal of a commutative Noetherian ring R such that ara (I) = t ≥ 2. The purpose of this article is to show that there exists an I-filter regular sequence y1, …, yt for R such that Rad (I) = Rad (y1, …, yt) and cd ((y1, …, yi), R) = i for all 1 ≤ i < t. Also, it is shown that ara (I) ≤ dim R + 1, which is a generalization of a nice result of Kronecker [14]. In addition, some applications are included.