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On the geometry of spaces of filtrations on local rings

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We study the geometry of spaces of filtrations on a Noetherian local domain. We introduce a metric d 1 on the space of saturated filtrations, inspired by the Darvas metric in complex geometry, such that it is a geodesic metric space. In the toric case, using Newton–Okounkov bodies, we identify the space of saturated monomial filtrations with a subspace of L loc 1 . We also consider several other topologies on such spaces and study the semi-continuity of the log canonical threshold function in the spirit of Demailly–Kollár. Moreover, there is a natural lattice structure on the space of saturated filtrations, which is a generalization of the classical result that the ideals of a ring form a lattice.

Award Identifier / Grant number: DMS-2139613

Award Identifier / Grant number: DMS-2201349

Award Identifier / Grant number: 24YF2709800

Funding statement: This work was partially supported by the NSF FRG grant DMS-2139613, the NSF grant DMS-2201349 of Chenyang Xu and a Shanghai Sailing program 24YF2709800.

Acknowledgements

A large portion of this paper is derived from the author’s doctoral thesis. The author would like to thank his advisor, Professor Chenyang Xu, for his constant support, encouragement and numerous inspiring conversations. Part of this work is inspired by an earlier collaboration with Harold Blum and Yuchen Liu. The author owes them special thanks for their insights on the topic. The author would like to thank Zhiyuan Chen, Colin Fan, Yujie Luo, Tomasso de Fernex, Rémi Reboulet, Xiaowei Wang and Ziquan Zhuang for fruitful discussions. The author would also like to thank Tamás Darvas, Jingjun Han, Jihao Liu, Minghao Miao, Junyao Peng, Linsheng Wang, Lingyao Xie, Qingyuan Xue, Tong Zhang and Junyan Zhao for kind comments. Special thanks are also due to Rémi Reboulet and Mattias Jonsson for reviewing a preliminary version of this paper and offering valuable suggestions. Part of this work is done while the author visited Northwestern University, the University of Utah, Fudan University and BICMR at Peking University. The author is grateful for their hospitality and the amazing environment they provided. The author is also grateful to the referees for the corrections and many valuable comments, which improved the quality of this paper.

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Received: 2024-11-05
Revised: 2025-09-04
Published Online: 2025-11-14
Published in Print: 2026-01-01

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