Valuations and asymptotic invariants for sequences of ideals

Abstract: We study asymptotic jumping numbers for graded sequences of ideals, and show that every such invariant is computed by a suitable real valuation of the function field. We conjecture that every valuation that computes an asymptotic jumping number is necessarily quasi-monomial. This conjecture holds in dimension two. In general, we reduce it to the case of affine space and to graded sequences of valuation ideals. Along the way, we study the structure of a suitable valuation space.

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Let \(X\) be a smooth complex variety, and \(a_{\bullet}\) be a graded sequence of ideal sheaves on \(X\). In the paper under review, the authors define \(v(a_{\bullet})\) and the log discrepancy, denoted by \(A(v)\), for every valuation \(v\) of \(K(X)\) with center on \(X\). The first main result of this paper says that for every graded sequence \(a_{\bullet}\) of ideal sheaves, there is a real valuation \(v\) of \(K(X)\) with center on \(X\) that computes the log canonical threshold \(\text{lct}(a_{\bullet})\) (more generally, the jumping numbers) of the sequence. They conjecture that if \(\text{lct}(a_{\bullet})\) is finite, then there exists a quasi-monomial valuation that computes \(\text{lct}(a_{\bullet})\) and any valuation that computes \(\text{lct}(a_{\bullet})\) must be quasi-monomial. The second main result reduces this conjecture to the case of an affine space over an algebraically closed field.

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