Department of Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley, California 94720 and Institute of Mathematics of The Romanian Academy, Bucharest, Romania
Abstract:
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.