Length, multiplicity, and multiplier ideals

Let be an -dimensional regular local ring, essentially of finite type over a field of characteristic zero. Given an -primary ideal of , the relationship between the singularities of the scheme defined by and those defined by the multiplier ideals , with varying in , are quantified in this paper by showing that the Samuel multiplicity of satisfies whenever . This formula generalizes an inequality on log canonical thresholds previously obtained by Ein, Mustata and the author of this paper. A refined inequality is also shown to hold for small dimensions, and similar results valid for a generalization of test ideals in positive characteristics are presented.

     

Resolutions of monomial ideals of projective dimension 1

We show that a monomial ideal I in a polynomial ring S has projective dimension ≤ 1 if and only if the minimal free resolution of S∕I is supported on a graph that is a tree. This is done by constructing specific graphs which support the resolution of the S∕I. We also provide a new characterization of quasi-trees, which we use to give a new proof to a result by Herzog, Hibi, and Zheng which characterizes monomial ideals of projective dimension 1 in terms of quasi-trees.     

CW-resolutions of monomial ideals that are supported on face posets

Given a monomial ideal I with minimal free resolution ? supported in characteristic p>0 on a CW-complex X with regular 2-skeleton, in general it is not the case that the face poset of X, P(X), also supports ? in the sense of Clark and Tchernev. We construct a (not necessarily regular) CW-complex Y that also supports ? and such that the face poset P(Y) also supports ?.     

A note on Mustaţă's computation of multiplier ideals of hyperplane arrangements

In 2006, M. Mustaţă used jet schemes to compute the multiplier ideals of reduced hyperplane arrangements. We give a simpler proof using a log resolution and generalize to non-reduced arrangements. By applying the idea of wonderful models introduced by De Concini-Procesi in 1995, we also simplify the result. Indeed, Mustaţă's result expresses the multiplier ideal as an intersection, and our result uses (generally) fewer terms in the intersection.

     

Linear resolutions of quadratic monomial ideals

We study the minimal free resolution of a quadratic monomial ideal in the case where the resolution is linear. First, we focus on the squarefree case, namely that of an edge ideal. We provide an explicit minimal free resolution under the assumption that the graph associated with the edge ideal satisfies specific combinatorial conditions. In addition, we construct a regular cellular structure on the resolution. Finally, we extend our results to non-squarefree ideals by means of polarization.     

Freiman ideals

In this paper we study the Freiman inequality for the least number of generators of the square of an equigenerated monomial ideal. Such an ideal is called a Freiman ideal if equality holds in the Freiman inequality. We classify all Freiman ideals of maximal height, the Freiman ideals of certain classes of principal Borel ideals, the Hibi ideals which are Freiman, and classes of Veronese type ideals which are Freiman.     

On the index of powers of edge ideals

The index of a graded ideal measures the number of linear steps in the graded minimal free resolution of the ideal. In this paper, we study the index of powers and squarefree powers of edge ideals. Our results indicate that the index as a function of the power of an edge ideal I is strictly increasing if I is linearly presented. Examples show that this needs not to be the case for monomial ideals generated in degree greater than two.     

Projective Dimension of String and Cycle Hypergraphs

We present a closed formula and a simple algorithmic procedure to compute the projective dimension of square-free monomial ideals associated to string or cycle hypergraphs. As an application, among these ideals we characterize all the Cohen–Macaulay ones.     

Monomial ideals, edge ideals of hypergraphs, and their graded Betti numbers

We use the correspondence between hypergraphs and their associated edge ideals to study the minimal graded free resolution of squarefree monomial ideals. The theme of this paper is to understand how the combinatorial structure of a hypergraph ℋ appears within the resolution of its edge ideal ℐ(ℋ). We discuss when recursive formulas to compute the graded Betti numbers of ℐ(ℋ) in terms of its sub-hypergraphs can be obtained; these results generalize our previous work (Hà, H.T., Van Tuyl, A. in J. Algebra 309:405–425, 2007) on the edge ideals of simple graphs. We introduce a class of hypergraphs, which we call properly-connected, that naturally generalizes simple graphs from the point of view that distances between intersecting edges are “well behaved.” For such a hypergraph ℋ (and thus, for any simple graph), we give a lower bound for the regularity of ℐ(ℋ) via combinatorial information describing ℋ and an upper bound for the regularity when ℋ=G is a simple graph. We also introduce triangulated hypergraphs that are properly-connected hypergraphs generalizing chordal graphs. When ℋ is a triangulated hypergraph, we explicitly compute the regularity of ℐ(ℋ) and show that the graded Betti numbers of ℐ(ℋ) are independent of the ground field. As a consequence, many known results about the graded Betti numbers of forests can now be extended to chordal graphs. Dedicated to Anthony V. Geramita on the occasion of his 65th birthday.     

Valuations and multiplier ideals

We present a new approach to the study of multiplier ideals in a local, two-dimensional setting. Our method allows us to deal with ideals, graded systems of ideals and plurisubharmonic functions in a unified way. Among the applications are a formula for the complex integrability exponent of a plurisubharmonic function in terms of Kiselman numbers, and a proof of the openness conjecture by Demailly and Kollár. Our technique also yields new proofs of two recent results: one on the structure of the set of complex singularity exponents for holomorphic functions; the other by Lipman and Watanabe on the realization of ideals as multiplier ideals.

     

Products of Borel fixed ideals of maximal minors

We study a large family of products of Borel fixed ideals of maximal minors. We compute their initial ideals and primary decompositions, and show that they have linear free resolutions. The main tools are an extension of straightening law and a very uniform primary decomposition formula. We study also the homological properties of associated multi-Rees algebra which are shown to be Cohen–Macaulay, Koszul and defined by a Gröbner basis of quadrics.     

A class of square-free monomial ideals associated to two integer sequences

Given two finite sequences of positive integers α and β, we associate a square-free monomial ideal I_α,β in a ring of polynomials S, and we recursively compute the algebraic invariants of S∕I_α,β. Also, we give precise formulas in special cases.     

Some Ideals with Large Projective Dimension

For an ideal in a polynomial ring over a field, a monomial support of is the set of monomials that appear as terms in a set of minimal generators of . Craig Huneke asked whether the size of a monomial support is a bound for the projective dimension of the ideal. We construct an example to show that, if the number of variables and the degrees of the generators are unspecified, the projective dimension of grows at least exponentially with the size of a monomial support. The ideal we construct is generated by monomials and binomials.

     

A note on determinants,minors and a boundary map

We give an explicit formula for the first non-trivial boundary map of the Akin–Buchsbaum–Weyman resolution (Schur functors and Schur complexes, Adv. Math 1982;44:207-278). The role of the Laplace expansion formula is emphasized.     

Cellular Structure on the Minimal Resolution of the Edge Ideal of the Complement of the n-Cycle

We study the minimal free resolution of the edge ideal of the complement of the n-cycle for n ≥ 4 and construct a regular cellular complex which supports this resolution.     

A multiplier rule on a metric space

A multiplier rule is proved for constrained minimization problems defined on a metric spaces. The proof requires a generalization of the values of a derivative in the classical case that the metric space is a normed space.     

The core of zero-dimensional monomial ideals

The core of an ideal is the intersection of all its reductions. We describe the core of a zero-dimensional monomial ideal I as the largest monomial ideal contained in a general reduction of I. This provides a new interpretation of the core in the monomial case as well as an efficient algorithm for computing it. We relate the core to adjoints and first coefficient ideals, and in dimension two and three we give explicit formulas.