Integral Closure of Ideals, Rings, and Modules (Paperback)

Table of basic properties; Notation and basic definitions; Preface; 1. What is the integral closure; 2. Integral closure of rings; 3. Separability; 4. Noetherian rings; 5. Rees algebras; 6. Valuations; 7. Derivations; 8. Reductions; 9. Analytically unramified rings; 10. Rees valuations; 11. Multiplicity and integral closure; 12. The conductor; 13. The Briancon-Skoda theorem; 14. Two-dimensional regular local rings; 15. Computing the integral closure; 16. Integral dependence of modules; 17. Joint reductions; 18. Adjoints of ideals; 19. Normal homomorphisms; Appendix A. Some background material; Appendix B. Height and dimension formulas; References; Index.