A Northcott type inequality for Buchsbaum-Rim coefficients

Abstract: In 1960, D.G. Northcott proved that if

e_{0} (I)

and

e_{1} (I)

denote zeroth and first Hilbert-Samuel coefficients of an

m a t h f r a k m

-primary ideal

I

in a Cohen-Macaulay local ring

(R, m a t h f r a k m)

, then

e_{0} (I) - e_{1} (I) l e e l l (R / I)

. In this article, we study an analogue of this inequality for Buchsbaum-Rim coefficients. We prove that if

(R, m a t h f r a k m)

is a two dimensional Cohen-Macaulay local ring and

M

is a finitely generated

R

-module contained in a free module

F

with finite co-length, then

b r_{0} (M) - b r_{1} (M) l e e l l (F / M)

, where

b r_{0} (M)

and

b r_{1} (M

) denote zeroth and first Buchsbaum-Rim coefficients respectively.

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