Given a commutative unit ring and a filtration
(1)
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of ideals of , the associated graded ring of
with respect to
is the graded ring
(2)
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The addition is defined componentwise, and the product is defined as follows. If
is the residue class of
mod
, and
is the residue class of
mod
, then
is the residue class of
mod
.
is a quotient ring of the Rees
ring of
with respect to
,
(3)
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If
is a proper ideal of
, then the notation
indicates the associated graded ring of
with respect to the
-adic filtration of
,
(4)
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If
is Noetherian, then
is as well. Moreover
is finitely generated over
. Finally, if
is a local ring with maximal ideal
, then
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