A transformation rule for natural multiplicities

Abstract

For multiplicities arising from a family of ideals we provide a general approach to transformation rules for a ring extension \'etale in codimension one. Our result can be applied to bound the size of the local \'etale fundamental group of a singularity in terms of F-signature, recovering a recent result of Carvajal-Rojas, Schwede, and Tucker, and differential signature, providing the first characteristic-free effective bound.