Abstract

Let I be an m -primary ideal of a Noetherian local ring ( R , m ) of positive dimension. The coefficient e 1 ( A ) of the Hilbert polynomial of an I-admissible filtration A is called the Chern number of A . The Positivity Conjecture of Vasconcelos for the Chern number of the integral closure filtration { I n ¯ } is proved for a 2-dimensional complete local domain and more generally for any analytically unramified local ring R whose integral closure in its total ring of fractions is Cohen–Macaulay as an R-module. It is proved that if I is a parameter ideal then the Chern number of the I-adic filtration is non-negative. Several other results on the Chern number of the integral closure filtration are established, especially in the case when R is not necessarily Cohen–Macaulay.

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