On a question of D. Rees on classical integral closure and integral closure relative to an Artinian module

Abstract

Let [Formula: see text] be a commutative Noetherian complete local ring and [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] ideals of [Formula: see text]. Motivated by a question of Rees, we study the relationship between [Formula: see text], the classical Northcott–Rees integral closure of [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text], the integral closure of [Formula: see text] relative to an Artinian [Formula: see text]-module [Formula: see text] (also called here ST-closure of [Formula: see text] on [Formula: see text]), in order to study a relation between [Formula: see text], the multiplicity of [Formula: see text], and [Formula: see text], the multiplicity of [Formula: see text] relative to an Artinian [Formula: see text]-module [Formula: see text]. We conclude [Formula: see text] when every minimal prime ideal of [Formula: see text] belongs to the set of attached primes of [Formula: see text]. As an application, we show what happens when [Formula: see text] is a generalized local cohomology module.