Linear systems and multiplicity of ideals (Q436448)

The paper considers a local reduced analytic ring \((R,m)\) of Krull dimension \(d\) and using classical results by Samuel, Rees and Ramanujam provides a geometric way of compute the multiplicity of an \(m\)-primary ideal of \(R\). Furthermore, particularizing the used ideas to develop the above result to the case of non-singular complex surfaces, the author gives a new and geometric proof of a result by Mumford.