The Briançon-Skoda number of analytic irreducible planar curves (Q486745)

The Briançon-Skoda number of a ring \(R\) is defined as the smallest integer \(k\), such that for any ideal \(I \subset R\) and \(l \geq1\), the integral closure of \(I^{k+l-1}\) is contained in \(I^l\). The article computes the Briançon-Skoda number of the local ring of any analytic irreducible planar curve in terms of its Puiseux characteristics. It turns out that this number is closely related to the Milnor number \(\mu\). It is \(\lceil 1+ \mu/m\rceil\), where \(m\) is the multiplicity.