Definition 43.15.1. In the situation above, if $d \geq \dim (\text{Supp}(M))$, then we set $e_ I(M, d)$ equal to $0$ if $d > \dim (\text{Supp}(M))$ and equal to $d!$ times the leading coefficient of the numerical polynomial $\chi _{I, M}$ so that
\[ \chi _{I, M}(n) \sim e_ I(M, d) \frac{n^ d}{d!} + \text{lower order terms} \]
The multiplicity of $M$ for the ideal of definition $I$ is $e_ I(M) = e_ I(M, \dim (\text{Supp}(M)))$.
Comments (0)
There are also: