Powers of ideals. Primary decompositions, Artin-Rees lemma and regularity (Q1359530)

In this paper it is proved that primary decompositions of powers of an ideal in a Noetherian ring satisfy some linear asymptotic properties. In particular, for any ideal \(I\) in a Noetherian ring, there exists an integer \(k\) such that for all \(n\geq 1\) there exists a primary decomposition \(I^n=q_1 \cap \cdots \cap q_s\) such that for all \(i\), \(\sqrt{q_i}^{nk} \subseteq q_i\). The author has proved this earlier for primary components of height at most 1 over the ideal. The proof of the main result on primary decomposition relies on a generalization of Huneke's uniform Artin-Rees lemma. A consequence is that for each homogeneous ideal \(I\) in a polynomial ring over a field there exists an integer \(k\) such that the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of \(I^n\) is bounded above by \(kn\). Explicit \(k\) have been found before for \(I\) of dimension at most 1 by Chandler, and Geramita, Gimigliano and Pitteloud.