For a Noetherian local ring , the pole dimension is the order of the pole at ofThe Hilbert-Serre theorem makes this series rational, so the order is defined.
For an -primary ideal in a Noetherian local ring, agrees for all sufficiently large with the Hilbert-Samuel polynomial of .
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