e/Serre's multiplicity conjectures

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has gloss	eng: In mathematics, Serres multiplicity conjectures are certain purely algebraic problems, in commutative algebra, motivated by the needs of algebraic geometry. Since André Weils initial rigorous definition of intersection numbers, around 1949, there had been a question of how to provide a more flexible and computable theory.
lexicalization	eng: Serre's multiplicity conjectures
instance of	(noun) a hypothesis that has been formed by speculating or conjecturing (usually with little hard evidence); "speculations about the outcome of the election"; "he dismissed it as mere conjecture" conjecture, speculation