Monomial Ideals and the Gorenstein Liaison Class of a Complete Intersection

In an earlier work, the authors described a mechanism for lifting monomial ideals to reduced unions of linear varieties. When the monomial ideal is Cohen–Macaulay (including Artinian), the corresponding union of linear varieties is arithmetically Cohen–Macaulay. The first main result of this paper is that if the monomial ideal is Artinian then the corresponding union is in the Gorenstein linkage class of a complete intersection (glicci). This technique has some interesting consequences. For instance, given any (d + 1)-times differentiable O-sequence H, there is a nondegenerate arithmetically Cohen–Macaulay reduced union of linear varieties with Hilbert function H which is glicci. In other words, any Hilbert function that occurs for arithmetically Cohen–Macaulay schemes in fact occurs among the glicci schemes. This is not true for licci schemes. Modifying our technique, the second main result is that any Cohen–Macaulay Borel-fixed monomial ideal is glicci. As a consequence, all arithmetically Cohen–Macaulay subschemes of projective space are glicci up to flat deformation.     

Stanley decompositions and partitionable simplicial complexes

We study Stanley decompositions and show that Stanley’s conjecture on Stanley decompositions implies his conjecture on partitionable Cohen–Macaulay simplicial complexes. We also prove these conjectures for all Cohen–Macaulay monomial ideals of codimension 2 and all Gorenstein monomial ideals of codimension 3. Dedicated to Takayuki Hibi on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday.     

Algebraic properties of classes of path ideals of posets

We consider path ideals associated to special classes of posets such as tree posets and cycles. We express their property of being sequentially Cohen–Macaulay in terms of the underlying poset. Moreover, monomial ideals, which arise in algebraic statistics from the Luce-decomposable model and the ascending model, can be viewed as path ideals of certain posets. We study invariants of these so-called Luce-decomposable monomial ideals and ascending ideals for diamond posets and products of chains. In particular, for these classes of posets, we explicitly compute their Krull dimension, their projective dimension, their Castelnuovo–Mumford regularity and their Betti numbers.     

Direct limits of Cohen–Macaulay rings

Let A be a direct limit of a direct system of Cohen–Macaulay rings. In this paper, we describe the Cohen–Macaulay property of A. Our results indicate that A is not necessarily Cohen–Macaulay. We show A is Cohen–Macaulay under various assumptions. As an application, we study Cohen–Macaulayness of non-affine normal semigroup rings.     

Algebraic and homological properties of generalized mixed product ideals

Archiv der Mathematik - Algebraic and homological invariants of generalized mixed product ideals induced by a monomial ideal are studied. We characterize the Cohen–Macaulay generalized mixed...     

On the notion of Cohen–Macaulayness for non-Noetherian rings

There exist many characterizations of Noetherian Cohen–Macaulay rings in the literature. These characterizations do not remain equivalent if we drop the Noetherian assumption. The aim of this paper is to provide some comparisons between some of these characterizations in non-Noetherian case. Toward solving a conjecture posed by Glaz, we give a generalization of the Hochster–Eagon result on Cohen–Macaulayness of invariant rings, in the context of non-Noetherian rings.     

Symbolic powers of monomial ideals and vertex cover algebras

We introduce and study vertex cover algebras of weighted simplicial complexes. These algebras are special classes of symbolic Rees algebras. We show that symbolic Rees algebras of monomial ideals are finitely generated and that such an algebra is normal and Cohen-Macaulay if the monomial ideal is squarefree. For a simple graph, the vertex cover algebra is generated by elements of degree 2, and it is standard graded if and only if the graph is bipartite. We also give a general upper bound for the maximal degree of the generators of vertex cover algebras.     

Associated radical ideals of monomial ideals

Algebraic and combinatorial properties of a monomial ideal are studied in terms of its associated radical ideals. In particular, we present some applications to the symbolic powers of square-free monomial ideals.     

Lʼindice des champs de vecteurs sur les courbes de Cohen–Macaulay

In this paper a new method for computing the topological index of a vector field at Cohen–Macaulay curves is described. It is based on properties of regular meromorphic differential forms which are used for computing the homological index of vectors fields introduced by X. Gómez-Mont. In particular, we show how to compute the index at quasihomogeneous Gorenstein curves and complete intersections, at monomial curves, at Cohen–Macaulay space curves, and others. In contrast to previous articles on this subject we do not use the technique of spectral sequences, or computer algebra systems for symbolic calculations.     

Skeletons of monomial ideals

In analogy to the skeletons of a simplicial complex and their Stanley–Reisner ideals we introduce the skeletons of an arbitrary monomial ideal I ? S = K [x₁, …, x_n ]. This allows us to compute the depth of S /I in terms of its skeleton ideals. We apply these techniques to show that Stanley's conjecture on Stanley decompositions of S /I holds provided it holds whenever S /I is Cohen–Macaulay. We also discuss a conjecture of Soleyman Jahan and show that it suffices to prove his conjecture for monomial ideals with linear resolution (© 2010 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Cohen-Macaulay Complexes and Koszul Rings

Throughout this paper k denotes a fixed commutative ground ring.A Cohen–Macaulay complex is a finite simplicial complexsatisfying a certain homological vanishing condition. Thesecomplexes have been the subject of much research; introductionscan be found in, for example, Björner, Garsia and Stanley[6] or Budach, Graw, Meinel and Waack [7]. It is known (see,for example, Cibils [8], Gerstenhaber and Schack [10]) thatthere is a strong connection between the (co)homology of anarbitrary simplicial complex and that of its incidence algebra.We show how the Cohen–Macaulay property fits into thispicture, establishing the following characterization. A pure finite simplicial complex is Cohen–Macaulay overk if and only if the incidence algebra over k of its augmentedface poset, graded in the obvious way by chain lengths, is aKoszul ring.     

Quasi-linear Quotients and Shellability of Pure Simplicial Complexes

For a square-free monomial ideal I ? S = k[x ₁, x ₂,…, x _n ], we introduce the notion of quasi-linear quotients. By using the quasi-linear quotients, we give a new algebraic criterion for the shellability of a pure simplicial complex Δ over [n]. Also, we provide a new criterion for the Cohen–Macaulayness of the face ring of a pure simplicial complex Δ. Moreover, we show that the face ring of the spanning simplicial complex (defined in [2 Anwar , I. , Raza , Z. , Kashif , A. Spanning simplicial complexes of uni-cyclic graphs . To appear in Algebra Colloquium . [Google Scholar]]) of an r-cyclic graph is Cohen–Macaulay.     

Uniform modules over serial rings with krull dimension

We study the symbolic blow-up ring of a prime ideal defining a monomial curve in the power series ring in 3 variables over a field. We characterize the conditions required to have the symbolic blow-up generated in degree 4 when the monomial curve is non-self-linked. When this is the case we also find that the symbolic blow-up cannot be Cohen–Macaulay.     

Integrally closed and componentwise linear ideals

In a two dimensional regular local ring integrally closed ideals have a unique factorization property and their associated graded ring is Cohen–Macaulay. In higher dimension these properties do not hold and the goal of the paper is to identify a subclass of integrally closed ideals for which they do. We restrict our attention to 0-dimensional homogeneous ideals in polynomial rings R of arbitrary dimension. We identify a class of integrally closed ideals, the Goto-class G^*{\mathcal {G}^*}, which is closed under product and it has a suitable unique factorization property. Ideals in G^*{\mathcal {G}^*} have a Cohen–Macaulay associated graded ring if either they are monomial or dim R ≤ 3. Our approach is based on the study of the relationship between the notions of integrally closed, contracted, full and componentwise linear ideals.     

Powers of t -spread principal Borel ideals

We prove that t-spread principal Borel ideals are sequentially Cohen–Macaulay and study their powers. We show that these ideals possess the strong persistence property and compute their limit depth.     

Zero-Dimensional Imbeddability

In this article, we try to understand which generically complete intersection monomial ideals with fixed radical are Cohen–Macaulay. We are able to give a complete characterization for a special class of simplicial complexes, namely the Cohen–Macaulay complexes without cycles in codimension 1. Moreover, we give sufficient conditions when the square-free monomial ideal has minimal multiplicity.     

Cohen–Macaulay monomial ideals of codimension 2

We give a structure theorem for Cohen–Macaulay monomial ideals of codimension 2, and describe all possible relation matrices of such ideals. In case that the ideal has a linear resolution, the relation matrices can be identified with the spanning trees of a connected chordal graph with the property that each distinct pair of maximal cliques of the graph has at most one vertex in common.     

Resolutions of Facet Ideals

Abstract

In this paper we study the resolution of a facet ideal associated with a special class of simplicial complexes introduced by Faridi. These simplicial complexes are called trees, and are a generalization (to higher dimensions) of the concept of a tree in graph theory. We show that the Koszul homology of the facet ideal I of a tree is generated by the homology classes of monomial cycles, determine the projective dimension and the regularity of I if the tree is 1-dimensional, show that the graded Betti numbers of I satisfy an alternating sum property if the tree is connected in codimension 1, and classify all trees whose facet ideal has a linear resolution.     

Equivalent condition for approximately Cohen–Macaulay complexes

We give a necessary and sufficient condition for a simplicial complex to be approximately Cohen–Macaulay. Namely it is approximately Cohen–Macaulay if and only if the ideal associated to its Alexander dual is componentwise linear and generated in two consecutive degrees. This completes the result of J. Herzog and T. Hibi who proved that a simplicial complex is sequentially Cohen–Macaulay if and only if the ideal associated to its Alexander dual is componentwise linear.     

Constructible Ideals

Based on the study of simplicial complexes, one may naturally define the constructible monomial ideals. We connect the square-free constructible ideal with the Stanley–Reisner ideal of the Alexander dual associated to a constructible simplicial complex. We give some properties of constructible ideals, and we compute the Betti numbers. We prove that all monomial ideals with linear quotients are constructible ideals. We also show that all constructible ideals have a linear resolution.