Filtrations by complete ideals and applications.
Suppose that is a local domain essentially of finite type over a field of characteristic , and a valuation of the quotient field of which dominates . The rank of such a valuation often increases upon extending the valuation to a valuation dominating , the completion of . When the rank of is , Cutkosky and Ghezzi handle this phenomenon by resolving the prime ideal of infinite value, but give an example showing that when the rank is greater than , there is no natural ideal in that...