The Grothendieck-Serre formula for the difference between the Hilbert function and Hilbert polynomial of a graded algebra is generalized for bigraded standard algebras. This is used to get a similar formula for the difference between the Bhattacharya function and Bhattacharya polynomial of two m-primary ideals I and J in a local ring (A, m) in terms of local cohomology modules of Rees algebras ...

The Chern numbers of the title are the first coefficients (after the multiplicities) of the Hilbert functions of various filtrations of ideals of a local ring (R, m). For a Noetherian (good) filtration A of m-primary ideals, the positivity and bounds for e1(A) are well-studied if R is Cohen-Macaulay, or more broadly, if R is a Buchsbaum ring or mild generalizations thereof. For arbitrary geomet...

Let (R; m;k) be a local ring (commutative and Noetherian). We will discuss existence and uniqueness of direct-sum decompositions of nitely generated R-modules. One says that R has nite CM type provided there are only nitely many indecomposable maximal Cohen-Macaulay R-modules up to isomorphism. Among complete equicharacteristic hypersurface rings with k algebraically closed of characteristic 6 ...

This paper shows that if [Formula: see text] is a homomorphic image of Cohen–Macaulay local ring, then text]-module sequentially generalized and only the difference between Hilbert coefficients arithmetic degrees for all distinguished parameter ideals are bounded.

The arithmetic degree, the smallest extended degree, and the homological degree are invariants that have been proposed as alternatives of the degree of a module if this module is not Cohen-Macaulay. We compare these degree functions and study their behavior when passing to the generic initial or the lexicographic submodule. This leads to various bounds and to counterexamples to a conjecture of ...