Towards a theory of arithmetic degrees

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Abstract: The aim of this paper is to start a systematic investigation of the arithmetic degree of projective schemes as introduced by D. Bayer and D. Mumford. One main theme concerns itself with the behaviour of this arithmetic degree under hypersurface sections. The notion of arithmetic degree involves the new concept of length-multiplicity of embedded primary ideals. Therefore it is much harder to control the arithmetic degree under a hypersurface section than in the case for the classical degree theory. Nevertheless it has important and interesting applications. We describe such applications to the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity and to Bezout-type theorems.


The main theme of the paper is an investigation of the arithmetic degree of projective schemes, introduced by \textit{D. Bayer} and \textit{D. Mumford} [in: Computational Algebraic Geometry and Commutative Algebra, Proc. Conf. Cortona 1991, Press, 1-48 (1993; Zbl 0846.13017)]. First the behaviour of the arithmetic degree under hypersurface sections is considered. Then an upper bound for the arithmetic degree in terms of the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity is given and Bezout's theorem is generalized via iterated hypersurface sections. Finally, two examples are studied.











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