Apery basis and polar invariants of plane curve singularities.
We study 0-dimensional real rank one valuations centered in a regular local ring of dimension n > 2 such that the associated valuation ring can be obtained from the regular ring by a sequence of quadratic transforms. We define two classical invariants associated to the valuation (the refined proximity matrix and the multiplicity sequence) and we show that are equivalent data of the valuation.
The purpose of this paper is to define a new numerical invariant of valuations centered in a regular two-dimensional regular local ring. For this, we define a sequence of non-negative rational numbers δ = {δ(j)} which is determined by the proximity relations of the successive quadratic transformations at the points determined by a valuation ν. This sequence is characterized by seven combinatorial properties, so that any sequence of non-negative rational numbers having the above properties is the...
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