Rees valuations and asymptotic primes of rational powers in noetherian rings and lattices (Q868869)

Let \(I\) be a regular ideal in a (noetherian) local ring \(R\). \ For \(x\in R\) define \(v_{I}(x)=\sup \{n\in N_{0}| x\in I^{n}\}\) and \(\overline{v} _{I}(x)=\lim_{n\rightarrow \infty }\nu _{I}(x^{n})/n\). \ So \(\overline{v} _{I}(x)\) is a homogeneous pseudo-valuation on \(R\). \ Put \(I_{\beta }=\{x\in R| \overline{v}_{I}(x)\geq \beta \}\) (so \(I_{n}=(I^{n})_{a}\) for \(n\in N\)). \ Rees has shown that there exist unique normalized valuations \( v_{i}:R\rightarrow N_{0}\cup \{\infty \}\) and integers \(e_{i},i=1,\ldots ,r\) such that \(\overline{v}_{I}(x)=\min \{v_{i}(x)/e_{i}| i=1,\ldots ,r\}\)\ for all \(x\in R\) [see, for example, \textit{D.\ Rees}, Lectures on the asymptotic theory of ideals, London Math. Soc. Lect. Note Ser. 113 (1988; Zbl 0669.13001)]. The purpose of this paper is to extend this result to Noether lattices (i.e., principally generated modular multiplicative lattices satisfying ACC) and to give some applications to asymptotic primes and projective equivalence, some of which are new, even in the ring case. \ For example, it is shown that if \(L\) is a Noether lattice and \(A\in L\), then in the notation above adopted to the lattice case where the set \(\{v_{i}\}\) is ``minimal'' and \(e=\text{lcm}\{e_{1},\dots ,e_{r}\}\), we have \(\text{Ass}(L/A_{n/e})\subseteq \{P,\dots ,P_{r}\}\) where \(P_{i} \) is the center of \(v_{i}\). Also, \(\bigcup _{n=1}^{\infty }\text{Ass}(L/A_{n/e})=\bigcup _{n=1}^{\infty }\text{Ass}(L/(A^{n})_{a})\subseteq \bigcup _{n=1}^{\infty }\text{Ass}(L/A^{n})\).