The Stacks project

Proposition 10.59.5. Let $R$ be a Noetherian local ring. Let $M$ be a finite $R$-module. Let $I \subset R$ be an ideal of definition. The Hilbert function $\varphi _{I, M}$ and the function $\chi _{I, M}$ are numerical polynomials.

Proof. Consider the graded ring $S = R/I \oplus I/I^2 \oplus I^2/I^3 \oplus \ldots = \bigoplus _{d \geq 0} I^ d/I^{d + 1}$. Consider the graded $S$-module $N = M/IM \oplus IM/I^2M \oplus \ldots = \bigoplus _{d \geq 0} I^ dM/I^{d + 1}M$. This pair $(S, N)$ satisfies the hypotheses of Proposition 10.58.7. Hence the result for $\varphi _{I, M}$ follows from that proposition and Lemma 10.55.1. The result for $\chi _{I, M}$ follows from this and Lemma 10.58.5. $\square$


Comments (2)

Comment #3505 by Jonas Ehrhard on

Lemma 00JD (10.54.1) needs to be Artinian. I don't see why this should be the case, as the ideals

seem to give a possibly infinite descending sequence. . This sequence stabilises iff for , which must not be true. For example consider the localisation of the polynomial ring at the maximal ideal and .

Comment #3547 by on

No, this is fine because Proposition 10.58.7 tells us we end up in and is Artinian because is an ideal of definition.

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