Department of Mathematics, University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65211 ; Department of Mathematics, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, Indiana 47907
Abstract:
Let be a regular local ring containing a field. We give a refinement of the Briançon-Skoda theorem showing that if is a minimal reduction of where is -primary, then where and is the largest ideal such that . The proof uses tight closure in characteristic and reduction to characteristic for rings containing the rationals.