We prove the prime characteristic analogue of a characteristic 0 result of Ein, Lazarsfeld and Smith [ELS03] on uniform approximation of valuation ideals associated to real-valued Abhyankar valuations centered on regular varieties.Let X be a variety over a perfect field k of prime characteristic, with function field K. Suppose v is a real-valued valuation of K/k centered on X. Then for all m ∈ R, we have the valuation idealsThe goal of this paper is to use the theory of asymptotic test ideals in positive characteristic to prove the following uniform approximation result for Abhyankar valuation ideals established in the characteristic 0 setting by Ein, Lazarsfeld and Smith [ELS03].Theorem A. Let X be a regular variety over a perfect field k of prime characteristic with function field K. For any non-trivial, real-valued Abhyankar valuation v of K/k centered on X, there exists e ≥ 0, such that for all m ∈ R ≥0 and ℓ ∈ N,In this paper, we employ an asymptotic version of the test ideal of a pair to prove Theorem A, drawing inspiration from the asymptotic multiplier ideal techniques in [ELS03]. However, instead of utilizing tight closure machinery, our approach to asymptotic test ideals is based on Schwede's dual and simpler reformulation of test ideals using p −e -linear maps, which are like maps inverse to Frobenius [Sch10, Sch11] (see also [Smi95,LS01]).Asymptotic test ideals are associated to graded families of ideals (Definition 4.2.1), an example of the latter being the family of valuation ideals a • := {a m (A)} m∈R ≥0 . For each m ≥ 0, one constructs the m-th asymptotic test ideal τ m (A, a • ) of the family a • , and then Theorem A is deduced using Theorem B. Let v be a non-trivial real-valued Abhyankar valuation of K/k, centered on a regular local ring (A, m), where A is essentially of finite type over the perfect field k of prime characteristic with fraction field K. Then there exists r ∈ A − {0} such that for all m ∈ R ≥0 ,In other words, m∈R ≥0 (a m : τ m (A, a • )) = (0).
Finally, as in [ELS03], Theorem B also gives a new proof of a prime characteristic version ofIzumi's theorem for arbitrary real-valued Abhyankar valuations with a common regular center (see also the more general work of [RS14]).
Corollary C (Izumi's Theorem for Abhyankar valuations in prime characteristic).Let v and w be non-trivial real-valued Abhyankar valuations of K/k, centered on a regular local ring (A, m), as in Theorem B. Then there exists a real number C > 0 such that for allThus, Corollary C implies that the valuation topologies on A induced by two non-trivial real-valued Abhyankar valuations are equivalent.Hara defined and used asymptotic test ideals to give a prime characteristic proof of uniform bounds on symbolic power ideals [Har05], which is independent of Hochster and Huneke's earlier proof [HH02] and similar to the multiplier ideal approach of [ELS01]. This paper continues the efforts of Hara and other researchers to use test ideals to prove prime characteristic analogues of statements in characteristic 0 that were esta...