Division by a power of a coordinate, on a chart and in a stalk #
The quotient u^{-m} F of an analytic function F by the m-th power of a coordinate u = x_k
is a well-defined analytic function on the whole chart when F is divisible by x_k^m near
every point of the hyperplane {x_k = 0}: it is the m-fold iterate of the canonical coordinate
quotient coordQuot of Hironaka.Manifold.BlowUp.Lift (F/x_k off the hyperplane, ∂_k F
on it), and x_k^m · (u^{-m} F) = F (coordQuot_iterate_spec). The divisibility hypothesis is
read off a stalk: a germ lying in the m-th power of the ideal generated by a coordinate germ of
a chart is, near the point, the product of the m-th power of the coordinate function with an
analytic function (exists_eq_pow_mul_of_mem_span_pow_coord). Two facts about ideals close the
file: in a domain, the colon of the ideal spanned by the a^m g_j by a^m is the ideal spanned
by the g_j (Ideal.colon_span_range_pow_mul: the quotient is independent of the generators),
and multiplying generators by a unit does not change the ideal (Ideal.span_range_unit_mul).
These are the tools for dividing the total transform of an ideal by a power of the exceptional
divisor, as in Hironaka's weak transform [Hir64, Ch. 0, §5, p. 142] and Kollár's chart formula
for the birational transform [Kol07, Definition 60, (60.3)]; they are used in
Hironaka.Manifold.BlowUp.Transform.Colon.
Iterated coordinate division on an open set #
If F = x_k · Q on an open set with Q analytic, the canonical quotient of F by x_k is
Q there.
The coordinate function x_k is analytic.
If F is analytic on the open set N and, near every point of N on the hyperplane
{x_k = 0}, F is x_k^m times an analytic function, then the m-fold canonical quotient
x_k^{-m} F is analytic on N and x_k^m · (x_k^{-m} F) = F on N.
From a stalk to a chart #
Reading a stalk statement on a chart: if the germ at b of a section f lies in the m-th
power of the ideal generated by the coordinate germ x_k of a chart Φ at b, then near
ψ (Φ b) the function f ∘ Φ⁻¹ ∘ ψ⁻¹ is x_k^m times an analytic function.