Some extensions of Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity

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Abstract: Let R be an excellent Noetherian ring of prime characteristic. Consider an arbitrary nested pair of ideals (or more generally, a nested pair of submodules of a fixed finite module). We do emph{not} assume that their quotient has finite length. In this paper, we develop various sufficient numerical criteria for when the tight closures of these ideals (or submodules) match. For some of the criteria we only prove sufficiency, while some are shown to be equivalent to the tight closures matching. We compare the various numerical measures (in some cases demonstrating that the different measures give truly different numerical results) and explore special cases where equivalence with matching tight closure can be shown. All of our measures derive ultimately from Hilbert-Kunz multiplicity.


Let \(R\) be a local Noetherian ring of characteristic \(p>0\), \(N\) be a \(R\)-module and \(L \subseteq M\) submodules of \(N\). In tight closure theory, criteria for \(M\) to be contained in the tight closure of \(L\) in \(N\), denoted by \(L^*_N\), are of most importance. Hochster and Huneke have shown that, under mild conditions on the ring \(R\), this can be achieved if the module \(M/L\) has finite length over \(R\). When \(N=R\) and \(M,L\) have finite colength in \(R\), this criterion is the equality between the Hilbert-Kunz multiplicities of \(L\) and, respectively, \(M\). The paper under review is examining this issue in the case of an arbitrary quotient \(M/L\), using ideas from Hilbert-Kunz theory. A notion of relative multiplicity is defined and used to produce a sufficient condition for \(M \subseteq L^*_N\). This concept of relative multiplicity is examined in three instances, such as when the projective dimension of \(M/L\) is finite, when \(R\) is a ring with FFRT (finite F-representation type), and, respectively, under some finiteness condition over the skew polynomial ring \(R[x ; f]\), where \(f\) acts as the Frobenius homorphism on \(R\). Some variants of relative multiplicity are studied as well, including a numerical characterization of tight closure, inspired by j-multiplicity, that works when \(L \subseteq M\) are ideals of \(R\) such that \(M/L\) has finite length.



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