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A very powerful technique in commutative algebra was introduced by Macaulay, who realized that studying the initial terms of elements of an ideal gives one great insight into the algebra and combinatorics of the ideal. The initial ideal depends on the choice of coordinates, but there is an object, the initial ideal in generic coordinates, which is coordinate-independent. Generic initial ideals appeared in the work of Grauert and Hironaka.
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Green, M.L. (1998). Generic Initial Ideals. In: Elias, J., Giral, J.M., Miró-Roig, R.M., Zarzuela, S. (eds) Six Lectures on Commutative Algebra. Progress in Mathematics. Birkhäuser, Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-0346-0329-4_2
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