## Graded rings of complete intersection local rings with finite residue fields.(English)Zbl 0862.13002

Summary: In this paper we prove that there are only finitely many graded rings arising as the associated graded rings of complete intersection local rings, with a given finite residue field $$k$$, which have a given dimension and multiplicity. More generally, if $$(R, {\mathfrak m})$$ is a Cohen-Macaulay (in fact a generalized Cohen-Macaulay) local ring with finite residue field, then given an integer $$e>0$$ the set $S_e(R)= \{\overline {\text{gr}_{\mathfrak m} (R/I)}|\;I\text{ generated by a part of a systems of parameters of }R\text{ and }e(R/I) = e\}$ is finite, where $$e(R/I)$$ denotes the multiplicity of the ring $$R/I$$, and $$\overline {\text{gr}_{\mathfrak m} (RI)}$$ denotes the isomorphism class of graded rings determined by $$\text{gr}_{\mathfrak m} (R/I)$$. In particular, we see that only finitely many numerical functions can arise as Hilbert functions of such quotient rings $$R/I$$. This question, for arbitrary residue fields, was raised by V. Srinivas and the author [J. Algebra 186, No. 1, 1-19, Art. No. 0358 (1996)].

### MSC:

 13A30 Associated graded rings of ideals (Rees ring, form ring), analytic spread and related topics 13C40 Linkage, complete intersections and determinantal ideals
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