Zariski-Nagata Theorems for Singularities and the Uniform Izumi-Rees Property

Abstract

We introduce and explore the Uniform Izumi-Rees Property in Noetherian rings with applications to multiplicity theory and containment relationships among symbolic powers of ideals. As an application, we prove that if $R$ is a normal domain essentially of finite type over a field, there exists a constant $C$ so that for all prime ideals $\mathfrak{p}\subseteq \mathfrak{q}\in\mbox{Spec}(R)$, if $\mathfrak{p}\subseteq {\mathfrak{q}}^{(t)}$, then for all $n\in \mathbb{N}$, there is a containment of symbolic powers ${\mathfrak{p}}^{(Cn)}\subseteq {\mathfrak{q}}^{(tn)}$.

To appear in Compositio Mathematica