Noetherian property of symbolic Rees algebras (Q1821822)

Let P be a prime ideal of a Noetherian normal Nagata local domain R, with \(Dim(R/P)=1\) and \(R_ P\) regular. Let \(P^{(n)}\) be the n-th symbolic power of P. This paper shows that the graded ring \(\oplus P^{(n)},\quad n\geq 0\), is Noetherian if and only if there is a \(d\geq 1\) such that the analytic spread of \(P^{(d)}\) equals Dim(R)-1. This generalizes a result of Rees which dealt with the 2-dimensional case.