On Rees algebras of ideals and modules over hypersurface rings (Q6054776)

Much work has been done identifying the generators of Rees algebras of ideals in a polynomial ring over a field. This paper is the first paper to investigate the generators of Rees algebras of ideals in a hypersurface ring. Of course, some of the ideas from the polynomial ring problem apply in the hypersurface problem; but nearly all of them need to be adapted and modified to work in the new setting! This paper carefully describes each procedure; explains why it needs to be modified; and then describes the modification. Often, two methods are given for each modification. The first five sections deal with the Rees algebra calculations for perfect, grade 2, linearly presented ideals of second analytic deviation one. The final section applies the earlier work to Rees algebras of modules of projective dimension one. The two topics are connected by way of generic Bourbaki ideals.