Unique factorization of *-products of one-fibered monomial ideals (Q4489708)

The purpose of the paper is to give some evidence that a theory of factorization of complete ideals in regular rings of dimension greater than two might be possible. For ideals \(I\) and \(J\) in a noetherian ring denote by \(I*J:= \overline{IJ}\). Let \(k\) be a field and \(R:=k[x_1,x_2,x_3]\). If \(I\) is a complete ideal in \(R\) which is an arbitrary product of one-fibered (i.e. with single associated Rees valuation) monomial ideals primary to \((x_1, x_2,x_3)\) it is shown that \(I\) has a unique decomposition \(I=I_1^{a_1}* \cdots* I^{a_m}_m\) as a \(*\)-product of one-fibered monomial ideals of minimial multiplicity for a distinct associated monomial valuation.