Cohen-Macaulay monomial ideals with given radical

We study the set of Cohen-Macaulay monomial ideals with a given radical. Among this set of ideals are the so-called Cohen-Macaulay modifications. Not all Cohen-Macaulay squarefree monomial ideals admit nontrivial Cohen-Macaulay modifications. It is shown that if there exists one such modification, then there exist indeed infinitely many.     

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.     

Borel-plus-powers monomial ideals

Let S=K[x₁,…,x_n] be a standard graded polynomial ring over a field K. In this paper, we show that the lex-plus-powers ideal has the largest graded Betti numbers among all Borel-plus-powers monomial ideals with the same Hilbert function. In addition in the case of characteristic 0, by using this result, we prove the lex-plus-powers conjecture for graded ideals containing , where p is a prime number.     

On the associated primes and the depth of the second power of squarefree monomial ideals

We present combinatorial characterizations for the associated primes of the second power of squarefree monomial ideals and criteria for this power to have positive depth or depth greater than one.     

On the fiber cone of monomial ideals

Archiv der Mathematik - We consider the fiber cone of monomial ideals. It is shown that for monomial ideals $$I\subset K[x,y]$$ of height 2, generated by 3 elements, the fiber cone F(I) of I is a...     

A note on monomial ideals

We show that the number of elements generating a squarefree monomial ideal up to radical can always be bounded above in terms of the number of its minimal monomial generators and the maximum height of its minimal primes. Received: 12 December 2005     

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.     

Standard pairs for monomial ideals in semigroup rings

We extend the notion of standard pairs to the context of monomial ideals in semigroup rings. Standard pairs can be used as a data structure to encode such monomial ideals, providing an alternative to generating sets that is well suited to computing intersections, decompositions, and multiplicities. We give algorithms to compute standard pairs from generating sets and vice versa and make all of our results effective. We assume that the underlying semigroup ring is positively graded, but not necessarily normal. The lack of normality is at the root of most challenges, subtleties, and innovations in this work.     

On the stable set of associated prime ideals of a monomial ideal

It is shown that any set of nonzero monomial prime ideals can be realized as the stable set of associated prime ideals of a monomial ideal. Moreover, an algorithm is given to compute the stable set of associated prime ideals of a monomial ideal.     

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)     

Convex bodies and asymptotic invariants for powers of monomial ideals

Continuing a well established tradition of associating convex bodies to monomial ideals, we initiate a program to construct asymptotic Newton polyhedra from decompositions of monomial ideals. This is achieved by forming a graded family of ideals based on a given decomposition. We term these graded families powers since they generalize the notions of ordinary and symbolic powers. Asymptotic invariants for these graded families are expressed as solutions to linear optimization problems on the respective convex bodies. This allows to establish a lower bound on the Waldschmidt constant of a monomial ideal by means of a more easily computable invariant, which we introduce under the name of naive Waldschmidt constant.     

Principal Borel ideals and Gotzmann ideals

In this paper we characterize all principal Borel ideals with Borel generator up to degree 4 which are Gotzmann. We also classify principal Borel ideals with a Borel generator of degree d which are lexsegment and we describe the shadows of principal Borel ideals. Finally, we discuss the corresponding results for squarefree monomial ideals.Received: 10 May 2002     

Local cohomology based on a nonclosed support defined by a pair of ideals

We introduce a generalization of the notion of local cohomology module, which we call a local cohomology module with respect to a pair of ideals (I,J), and study its various properties. Some vanishing and nonvanishing theorems are given for this generalized version of local cohomology. We also discuss its connection with ordinary local cohomology.     

Certain monomial ideals whose numbers of generators of powers descend

Archiv der Mathematik - This paper studies the numbers of minimal generators of powers of monomial ideals in polynomial rings. For a monomial ideal I in two variables, Eliahou, Herzog, and Saem...     

A simple algorithm for principalization of monomial ideals

In this paper, we give a simple constructive proof of principalization of monomial ideals and the global analog. This also gives an algorithm for principalization.

     

Candidates for nonzero Betti numbers of monomial ideals

Let I be a monomial ideal in the polynomial ring S generated by elements of degree at most d. In this paper, it is shown that, if the i-th syzygy of I has no elements of degrees j,…,j+(d?1) (where j≥i+d), then (i+1)-th syzygy of I does not have any element of degree j+d. Then we give several applications of this result, including an alternative proof for Green–Lazarsfeld index of the edge ideals of graphs as well as an alternative proof for Fröberg’s theorem on classification of square-free monomial ideals generated in degree 2 with linear resolution. Among all, we deduce a partial result on subadditivity of the syzygies for monomial ideals.     

Embedded associated primes of powers of square-free monomial ideals

An ideal I in a Noetherian ring R is normally torsion-free if Ass(R/I^t)=Ass(R/I) for all t≥1. We develop a technique to inductively study normally torsion-free square-free monomial ideals. In particular, we show that if a square-free monomial ideal I is minimally not normally torsion-free then the least power t such that I^t has embedded primes is bigger than β₁, where β₁ is the monomial grade of I, which is equal to the matching number of the hypergraph H(I) associated to I. If, in addition, I fails to have the packing property, then embedded primes of I^t do occur when t=β₁+1. As an application, we investigate how these results relate to a conjecture of Conforti and Cornuéjols.     

Antichains of monomial ideals are finite

The main result of this paper is that all antichains are finite in the poset of monomial ideals in a polynomial ring, ordered by inclusion. We present several corollaries of this result, both simpler proofs of results already in the literature and new results. One natural generalization to more abstract posets is shown to be false.

     

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.