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Apr 5, 2011 at 7:10 vote accept Franz
Mar 23, 2011 at 5:49 comment added Sándor Kovács Hi Franz, this sounds plausible, but I am a little doubtful that you would get such a simple formula in general. However, it seems to work for hypersurfaces.
Mar 22, 2011 at 22:37 comment added Franz Thus I wondered if there were also a formula in this case.
Mar 22, 2011 at 22:37 comment added Franz Dear Sandros, I really thank you for your detailed answer. In fact, as your example shows, when X is a hypersurface and X is equimultiple along Y (which is equivalent to normal flatness for hypersurfaces) there seems to be a formula K_Z = p^*K_X + (n-d)E (d is the multiplicity of X along Y and n the codimension of Y in X). In fact I know this formula is true if Y is a point and X is a hypersurface. I am pretty sure it is true if X is a hypersurface equimultiple along Y and Y is smooth. When X is no longer a hypersurface, a good replacement for equimultiplicity is normal flatness.
Mar 22, 2011 at 22:25 history answered Sándor Kovács CC BY-SA 2.5