Filtered rings, filtered blowing-ups and normal two-dimensional singularities with ``star-shaped'' resolution (Q2277522)

This is an ambitious paper which lays the foundations of homological theory of filtration and applies them to study surface singularities. Here a filtration of a local ring (A,m) is a decreasing sequence of non- zero ideals \((F^ n| n\in {\mathbb{Z}})\) such that \(F^ n=A\quad (n\leq 0),\quad F^ iF^ j\subseteq F^{i+j},\quad \cap F^ n=(0),\) and such that the Rees ring \({\mathcal R}=\oplus_{n\geq 0}F^ nT^ n \) is finitely generated over \(A={\mathcal R}_ 0\). For the authors a good filtration is one whose associated graded ring \(G=\oplus F^ n/F^{n+1} \) has good properties (e.g. normal domain with isolated singularity), and from such filtration (which is in general not ideal-adic) they derive properties of A. In chapter 1, {\S}1 to 3 are devoted to such subjects as the filtered blowing-up \(X=\Pr oj({\mathcal R})\), local cohomology, canonical modules, divisor class group, dualizing complexes. In {\S}4 a criterion for X to be normal with only rational singularities is given. The main result of {\S}5 is: if A is a normal 2-dimensional local ring and G is a domain with isolated singularity, then the (dual graph of the exceptional divisor of) resolution of singularity of Spec(A) is star-shaped. In chapter 2, conversely, normal 2-dimensional singularities with star- shaped resolution are studied. Such a resolution defines a filtration on A, and its associated graded ring G is compared with another graded ring called Pinkham-Demazure construction.