When does the subadditivity theorem for multiplier ideals hold?

Demailly, Ein and Lazarsfeld proved the subadditivity theorem for multiplier ideals on nonsingular varieties, which states the multiplier ideal of the product of ideals is contained in the product of the individual multiplier ideals. We prove that, in the two-dimensional case, the subadditivity theorem holds on log terminal singularities. However, in the higher dimensional case, we have several counterexamples. We consider the subadditivity theorem for monomial ideals on toric rings and construct a counterexample on a three-dimensional toric ring.

     

Multiplier Ideals of General Line Arrangements in ℂ3

We consider the multiplier ideals of the ideal of a reduced union of lines through the origin in ?³. For general arrangements of lines, we calculate the multiplier ideals.     

Constancy regions of mixed multiplier ideals in two‐dimensional local rings with rational singularities

The aim of this paper is to study mixed multiplier ideals associated with a tuple of ideals in a two‐dimensional local ring with a rational singularity. We are interested in the partition of the real positive orthant given by the regions where the mixed multiplier ideals are constant. In particular we reveal which information encoded in a mixed multiplier ideal determines its corresponding jumping wall and we provide an algorithm to compute all the constancy regions, and their corresponding mixed multiplier ideals, in any desired range.     

Valuations and multiplier ideals

We present a new approach to the study of multiplier ideals in a local, two-dimensional setting. Our method allows us to deal with ideals, graded systems of ideals and plurisubharmonic functions in a unified way. Among the applications are a formula for the complex integrability exponent of a plurisubharmonic function in terms of Kiselman numbers, and a proof of the openness conjecture by Demailly and Kollár. Our technique also yields new proofs of two recent results: one on the structure of the set of complex singularity exponents for holomorphic functions; the other by Lipman and Watanabe on the realization of ideals as multiplier ideals.

     

Multiplier ideals and modules on toric varieties

A formula computing the multiplier ideal of a monomial ideal on an arbitrary affine toric variety is given. Variants for the multiplier module and test ideals are also treated.Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 14J17, 13A35The author is grateful to Nobuo Hara for interesting discussions and thanks the referee for a careful reading and thoughtful comments.in final form: 02 November 2003     

Analytic approximations of plurisubharmonic singularities

We study several classes of isolated singularities of plurisubharmonic functions that can be approximated by analytic singularities with control over their residual Monge–Ampère masses. They are characterized in terms of Green functions for Demailly’s approximations, relative types, and valuations. Furthermore, the classes are shown to appear when studying graded families of ideals of analytic functions and the corresponding asymptotic multiplier ideals.     

Hodge decomposition of Alexander invariants

Multivariable Alexander invariants of algebraic links calculated in terms of algebro-geometric invariants (polytopes and ideals of quasiadjunction). The relations with log-canonical divisors, the multiplier ideals and a semicontinuity property of polytopes of quasiadjunction are discussed. Received: 8 February 2001 / Revised version: 1 December 2001     

Algorithms for computing multiplier ideals

We give algorithms for computing multiplier ideals using Gröbner bases in Weyl algebras. To this end, we define a modification of Budur-Musta?aˇ-Saito’s generalized Bernstein-Sato polynomial. We present several examples computed by our algorithm.     

Depths of multiplier ideals with lengths of constancy zero

In this note, we study the behavior of depths of multiplier ideals under restriction when the lengths of constancy are zero.     

Depth and restriction of multiplier ideals

In this short note, we give a formula for the restriction of multiplier ideals when their depth is greater than one.     

A note on Mustaţă's computation of multiplier ideals of hyperplane arrangements

In 2006, M. Mustaţă used jet schemes to compute the multiplier ideals of reduced hyperplane arrangements. We give a simpler proof using a log resolution and generalize to non-reduced arrangements. By applying the idea of wonderful models introduced by De Concini-Procesi in 1995, we also simplify the result. Indeed, Mustaţă's result expresses the multiplier ideal as an intersection, and our result uses (generally) fewer terms in the intersection.

     

Wolff’s Problem of Ideals in the Multiplier Algebra on Dirichlet Space

We establish an analogue of Wolff’s theorem on ideals in \(H^{\infty }(\mathbb {D})\) for the multiplier algebra of Dirichlet space.     

Multiplier ideals, V-filtrations and transversal sections

We show that the restriction to a smooth transversal section commutes to the computation of multiplier ideals and V-filtrations. As an application we prove the constancy of the jumping numbers and the spectrum along any stratum of a Whitney regular stratification.     

Asymptotic base loci on singular varieties

We prove that the non-nef locus and the restricted base locus of a pseudoeffective divisor coincide on KLT pairs. We also extend to KLT pairs F. Russo’s characterization of nef and abundant divisors by means of asymptotic multiplier ideals.     

The multiplier ideals of a sum of ideals

We prove that if , are nonzero sheaves of ideals on a complex smooth variety , then for every we have the following relation between the multiplier ideals of , and :

A similar formula holds for the asymptotic multiplier ideals of the sum of two graded systems of ideals.

We use this result to approximate at a given point arbitrary multiplier ideals by multiplier ideals associated to zero dimensional ideals. This is applied to compare the multiplier ideals associated to a scheme in different embeddings.

     

A Characteristic p Analog of Multiplier Ideals and Applications #

We present two applications of a characteristic p analog of multiplier ideals, which is a generalization of the test ideal in the theory of tight closure. Namely, we give alternative proofs to Smith's result on base-point-freeness of adjoint bundles in characteristic p > 0 and results on uniform behavior of symbolic powers in a regular local ring due to Ein, Lazarsfeld and Smith, and Hochster and Huneke.     

Birationally rigid hypersurfaces

We prove that for N≥4, all smooth hypersurfaces of degree N in ? ^N are birationally superrigid. First discovered in the case N=4 by Iskovskikh and Manin in a work that started this whole direction of research, this property was later conjectured to hold in general by Pukhlikov. The proof relies on the method of maximal singularities in combination with a formula on restrictions of multiplier ideals.     

Filtrations and local syzygies of multiplier ideals II

Let a be a non-zero ideal sheaf on a smooth affine variety X of dimension d and let c be a positive rational number. Let x be a closed point of X and let m_x be the maximal ideal sheaf at x. In [Robert Lazarsfeld, Kyungyong Lee, Local syzygies of multiplier ideals, Invent. Math. 167 (2007) 409-418] the authors studied the local syzygies of the multiplier ideal J(a^c). Motivated by their result, the asymptotic behavior of the local syzygies of the multiplier ideal at x for k≥d−2 was studied in [Seunghun Lee, Filtrations and local syzygies of multiplier ideals, J. Algebra (2007) 629-639]. In this note, we study the local syzygies of at x for 1≤k≤d−3. As a by-product we give a different proof of the main theorem in the former reference cited above.     

The Poincaré series of multiplier ideals of a simple complete ideal in a local ring of a smooth surface

For a simple complete ideal ℘ of a local ring at a closed point on a smooth complex algebraic surface, we introduce an algebraic object, named Poincaré series P_℘, that gathers in a unified way the jumping numbers and the dimensions of the vector space quotients given by consecutive multiplier ideals attached to ℘. This paper is devoted to prove that P_℘ is a rational function giving an explicit expression for it.     

Strong test modules and multiplier ideals

We introduce the notion of strong test module and show that a large number of such modules appear in the tight closure theory of complete domains: the test ideal (this has already been known), the parameter test module, and the module of relative test elements. They also appear as certain multiplier ideals, a concept of interest in algebraic geometry. Mathematics Subject Classification (2000):13A35