The stable set of associated prime ideals of a polymatroidal ideal

The associated prime ideals of powers of polymatroidal ideals are studied, including the stable set of associated prime ideals of this class of ideals. It is shown that polymatroidal ideals have the persistence property and for transversal polymatroids and polymatroidal ideals of Veronese type the index of stability and the stable set of associated ideals is determined explicitly.     

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.     

Monomial localizations and polymatroidal ideals

In this paper we consider monomial localizations of monomial ideals and conjecture that a monomial ideal is polymatroidal if and only if all its monomial localizations have a linear resolution. The conjecture is proved for squarefree monomial ideals where it is equivalent to a well-known characterization of matroids. We prove our conjecture in many other special cases. We also introduce the concept of componentwise polymatroidal ideals and extend several of the results known for polymatroidal ideals to this new class of ideals.     

Toric fiber products versus Segre products

The toric fiber product is an operation that combines two ideals that are homogeneous with respect to a grading by an affine monoid. The Segre product is a related construction that combines two multigraded rings. The quotient ring by a toric fiber product of two ideals is a subring of the Segre product, but in general this inclusion is strict. We contrast the two constructions and show that any Segre product can be presented as a toric fiber product without changing the involved quotient rings. This allows to apply previous results about toric fiber products to the study of Segre products. We give criteria for the Segre product of two affine toric varieties to be dense in their toric fiber product, and for the map from the Segre product to the toric fiber product to be finite. We give an example that shows that the quotient ring of a toric fiber product of normal ideals need not be normal. In rings with Veronese type gradings, we find examples of toric fiber products that are always Segre products, and we show that iterated toric fiber products of Veronese ideals over Veronese rings are normal.     

Some Remarks on Borel Type Ideals

We give new equivalent characterizations for ideals of Borel type. Also, we prove that the regularity of a product of ideals of Borel type is bounded by the sum of the regularities of those ideals.     

Regularity,depth and arithmetic rank of bipartite edge ideals

We study minimal free resolutions of edge ideals of bipartite graphs. We associate a directed graph to a bipartite graph whose edge ideal is unmixed, and give expressions for the regularity and the depth of the edge ideal in terms of invariants of the directed graph. For some classes of unmixed edge ideals, we show that the arithmetic rank of the ideal equals projective dimension of its quotient.     

The Lefschetz Property for Componentwise Linear Ideals and Gotzmann Ideals

Abstract

For standard graded Artinian K-algebras defined by componentwise linear ideals and Gotzmann ideals, we give conditions for the weak Lefschetz property in terms of numerical invariants of the defining ideals.     

U-factorization of ideals

We study the factorization of ideals of a commutative ring, in the context of the U-factorization framework introduced by Fletcher. This leads to several “U-factorability” properties weaker than unique U-factorization. We characterize these notions, determine the implications between them, and give several examples to illustrate the differences. For example, we show that a ring is a general ZPI-ring if and only if its monoid of ideals has unique factorization in the sense of Fletcher. We also examine how these “U-factorability” properties behave with respect to several ring-theoretic constructions.     

Bounds on the regularity and projective dimension of ideals associated to graphs

In this paper, we give new upper bounds on the regularity of edge ideals whose resolutions are k-step linear; surprisingly, the bounds are logarithmic in the number of variables. We also give various bounds for the projective dimension of such ideals, generalizing other recent results. By Alexander duality, our results also apply to unmixed square-free monomial ideals of codimension two. We also discuss and connect these results to more classical topics in commutative algebra.     

Local properties of accessible injective operator ideals

In addition to Pisier's counterexample of a non-accessible maximal Banach ideal, we will give a large class of maximal Banach ideals which are accessible. The first step is implied by the observation that a good behaviour of trace duality, which is canon-ically induced by conjugate operator ideals can be extended to adjoint Banach ideals, if and only if these adjoint ideals satisfy an accessibility condition (theorem 3.1). This observation leads in a natural way to a characterization of accessible injective Banach ideals, where we also recognize the appearance of the ideal of absolutely summing operators (prop. 4.1). By the famous Grothendieck inequality, every operator from L ₁ to a Hilbert space is absolutely summing, and therefore our search for such ideals will be directed towards Hilbert space factorization—via an operator version of Grothendieck's inequality (lemma 4.2). As a consequence, we obtain a class of injective ideals, which are quasi-accessible, and with the help of tensor stability, we improve the corresponding norm inequalities, to get accessibility (theorem 4.1 and 4.2). In the last chapter of this paper we give applications, which are implied by a non-trivial link of the above mentioned considerations to normed products of operator ideals.     

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.     

Unmixed bipartite graphs and sublattices of the Boolean lattices

The correspondence between unmixed bipartite graphs and sublattices of the Boolean lattice is discussed. By using this correspondence, we show existence of squarefree quadratic initial ideals of toric ideals arising from minimal vertex covers of unmixed bipartite graphs.     

A characterization of an order ideal in Riesz spaces

In this paper we give a characterization of order ideals in Riesz spaces.

     

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.     

Spectral partially ordered sets

We examine some topics related to (gold)spectral partially ordered sets, i.e., those that are order isomorphic to (Goldman) prime spectra of commutative rings. Among other results, we characterize the partially ordered sets that are isomorphic to prime spectra of rings satisfying the descending chain condition on radical ideals, and we show that a dual of a tree is isomorphic to the Goldman prime spectrum of a ring if and only if every chain has an upper bound. We also give some new methods for constructing (gold)spectral partially ordered sets.     

Linked Primes and Orders in Artinian Rings

It is shown that prime ideals of a Noetherian ring are linked if and only if certain corresponding prime ideals are linked in an associated Artinian ring. Furthermore, it is shown that there is a canonical linking ideal, which can be found by using a construction based on middle annihilator ideals.