Asymptotic resurgence via integral closures

TL;DR

This paper links the asymptotic resurgence of ideals in polynomial rings to integral closures, providing a way to compute it via ratios involving new Waldschmidt-like constants and exploring their behavior in monomial ideals.

Contribution

It introduces a method to compute asymptotic resurgence using integral closures and defines skew Waldschmidt constants, connecting algebraic invariants with geometric interpretations.

Findings

Asymptotic resurgence equals maximum of ratios involving skew Waldschmidt constants.

For normal ideals, asymptotic resurgence coincides with resurgence.

Examples show that resurgence and asymptotic resurgence can differ in monomial ideals.

Abstract

Given an ideal in a polynomial ring, we show that the asymptotic resurgence studied by Guardo, Harbourne, and Van Tuyl can be computed using integral closures. As a consequence, the asymptotic resurgence of an ideal is the maximum of finitely many ratios involving Waldschmidt-like constants (which we call skew Waldschmidt constants) defined in terms of Rees valuations. We use this to prove that the asymptotic resurgence coincides with the resurgence if the ideal is normal (that is, all its powers are integrally closed). For a monomial ideal the skew Waldschmidt constants have an interpretation involving the symbolic polyhedron defined by Cooper, Embree, H\`a, and Hoefel. Using this intuition we provide several examples of squarefree monomial ideals whose resurgence and asymptotic resurgence are different.