Department of Mathematics,
University of California at Berkeley,
Berkeley, CA 94720
Abstract: Given any ideal $I$ in a Noetherian ring $R$, we get a multiplicity function $\hbox mult_I\colon \hbox Spec(R)\to$ N. This paper characterizes all such functions.
Keywords: multiplicity function; ideals
Classification (MSC91): 13E05
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