The Chern coefficients of local rings (Q841565)

Let \((R,{\mathfrak m})\) be a Noetherian local ring of dimension \(d>0\), and let \(I\) be an \({\mathfrak m}\)-primary ideal. One of our goals is to study the set of \(I\)-good filtrations of \(R\). More concretely, we will consider the set of multiplicative, decreasing filtrations of \(R\) ideals, \({\mathcal A}=\{I_n,I_0=R\), \(I_{n+1}=II_n\), \(n\gg 0\}\), that is integral over the \(I\)-adic filtration and conveniently coded in the corresponding Rees algebra and its associated graded ring: \[ {\mathcal R}({\mathcal A})= \sum_{n\geq 0}I_nt^n,\quad\text{gr}_{\mathcal A}(R)=\sum_{n\geq 0} I_n/I_{n+1}. \] In this paper we study certain strata of these algebras. For that we will focus on the role of the Hilbert polynomial of the Hilbert function \(\lambda(R/I_{n+1})\), \(n\gg 0\), \[ H^1_{\mathcal A}(n)= P^1_{\mathcal A}(n)=\sum^d_{i=0}(-1)^ie_i({\mathcal A}){n+d-i\choose d-i}, \] particularly of its coefficients \(e_0({\mathcal A})\) and \(e_1({\mathcal A})\). Two of our principal aims are to establish relationships between the coefficients \(e_i({\mathcal A})\) for \(i=0,1\) and (marginally) \(e_2({\mathcal A})\).