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We recall two measurements of the order of contact of an ideal in the ring of germs of holomorphic functions at a point, and we provide a class of examples in which they differ.
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This research was partially supported by NSF Grant DMS 13-61001 of John D’Angelo. The author would like to thank Professor D’Angelo for his support and guidance. The author also wishes to thank the anonymous referees for helpful suggestions. During the revision process of this paper, the author received from Nicoara the preprint [2], which acknowledges this work and corrects [1].
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Fassina, M. A Remark on Two Notions of Order of Contact. J Geom Anal 29, 707–716 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12220-018-0015-5
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