Hilbert Functions of Filtered Modules

Preliminaries.- Bounds for and

From the reviews:

"This book's first aim is to gather together in one place many new developments of the theory of Hilbert functions by using a unifying approach of filtrations of submodules. In this way, the book not only extends many well-known results ... but it also gives self-contained and easier proofs of even classical results. ... This is a short but very nice book. It is useful for graduate students and researchers who are interested in the theory of Hilbert functions." (Lê Tu n Hoa, Mathematical Reviews, Issue 2012 b)

"The authors introduce and discuss the notion of a good q-filtration of a module over a local ring. ... The authors give several upper bounds for the first two Hilbert coefficients of the Hilbert polynomial of a filtration ... . This is an interesting and well written lecture note." (Siamak Yassemi, Zentralblatt MATH, Vol. 1201, 2011)