Postulation and reduction vectors of multigraded filtrations of ideals

Abstract

We study relationship between postulation and reduction vectors of admissible multigraded filtrations $\mathcal F= \{\mathcal F (\underline n)\}_{\underline n\in\mathbb Z^s}$ of ideals in Cohen-Macaulay local rings of dimension at most two. This is enabled by a suitable generalisation of the Kirby-Mehran Complex. An analysis of its homology leads to an analogue of Huneke's Fundamental Lemma which plays a crucial role in our investigations. We also clarify the relationship between the Cohen-Macaulay property of the multigraded Rees algebra of $\mathcal F$ and reduction vectors with respect to complete reductions of $\mathcal F.$