Filtrations and Noetherian symbolic blow-up rings

Abstract

For a one-dimensional prime ideal in a local Noetherian ring it is characterized when the symbolic blow-up ring is an algebra of finite type. More generally, for a filtration of ideals of a local Noetherian ring there is a necessary and sufficient condition for the corresponding Rees ring to be a Noetherian ring. Applications concern asymptotic prime divisors and the analytic spread.