MacLane-Vaquié chains of valuations on a polynomial ring (Q2057575)

Let \(v\) be a Krull valuation of a field \(K\). In this paper, the authors reinterpret some results of MacLane and Vaquie on extensions of \(v\) to valuations on the polynomial ring \(K[x]\). They introduce certain MacLane-Vaquie chains constructed as a mixture of ordinary and limit augmentations of valuations. Every valuation \(w\) on \( K[x]\) is a limit (in a certain sense) of a countable MacLane-Vaquie chain. This chain underlying \(w\) is essentially unique and contains discrete arithmetic data yielding an explicit description of the graded algebra of \(w\) as an algebra over the graded algebra of \(v\).