Asymptotic multiplicity sequences of graded families

Abstract

We study asymptotic multiplicity sequences of graded families of arbitrary ideals in Noetherian local rings. We characterize convergence of the zeroth component and prove that the first positive component not forced to vanish always converges under natural equidimensionality and catenarity assumptions. In contrast, higher components may exhibit arbitrary asymptotic behavior: even in $k[[x,y]]$, integrally closed filtrations with fixed radical, height, and analytic spread can realize any prescribed lower and upper limits. For Noetherian graded filtrations, however, all asymptotic components exist, are finite and rational, and satisfy Rees-type and valuative criteria for integral dependence. In the reduced pure-dimensional complex analytic setting, a common principalizing modification provides a second convergence mechanism without finite-generation assumptions. We also develop a diagonal mixed theory: for graded $\mathfrak m$-primary families, the top diagonal components are sums of Cutkosky's mixed multiplicities, while on a common analytic model all diagonal mixed components converge. The latter result extends the one-family common-model theorem.