Abstract
We study the class of equimultiple modules. In particular, we prove several criteria for an equimultiple module to be of the principal class or complete intersection and prove the openness of the equimultiple locus of an ideal module.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
We thank the referee for meticulously reading the manuscript and for constructive suggestions.
The first author has been partially supported by POCTI-ISFL-1-1431 (Portugal).
The second author has been partially supported by MTM2007-67493 (Spain).
Notes
Communicated by S. Goto.