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We show that the intersection of the irreducible components of a hypersurface defined by a polynomial with square-free support has F-rational singularities in characteristic $p>0$. As a consequence, we obtain that hypersurfaces defined by irreducible polynomials with square-free support have F-rational singularities, positively answering a question of Bath, Musta\c{t}\u{a}, and Walther.

We consider ideals in a polynomial ring generated by collections of power sum polynomials, and obtain conditions under which these define complete intersection rings, normal domains, and unique factorization domains. We also settle a key case of a conjecture of Conca, Krattenthaler, and Watanabe, and prove other results in that direction.

For $K$ an infinite field of characteristic other than two, consider the action of the special orthogonal group $\operatorname{SO}_t(K)$ on a polynomial ring via copies of the regular representation. When $K$ has characteristic zero, Boutot's theorem implies that the invariant ring has rational singularities; when $K$ has positive characteristic, the invariant ring is $F$-regular, as proven by Hashimoto using good filtrations. We give a new proof of this, viewing the invariant ring for $\operatorname{SO}_t(K)$ as a cyclic cover of the invariant ring for the corresponding orthogonal group; this point of view has a number of useful consequences, for example it readily yields the $a$-invariant and information on the Hilbert series. Indeed, we use this to show that the $h$-vector of the invariant ring for $\operatorname{SO}_t(K)$ need not be unimodal.

In 1965 Buchberger defined Gr\"obner bases and an algorithm to compute them. Despite a slow start, already in the eighties Gr\"obner bases had become the main device for symbolic computations involving polynomials as well as a theoretical tool for the investigation of ideals and varieties via the so-called Gr\"obner deformation techniques. Rings and algebraic varieties defined by means of determinants are among the most classical objects in commutative algebra, algebraic geometry and invariant theory. By the end of the the eighties the time was ripe for the computation of Gr\"obner bases of determinantal ideals. We will tell the tale of how (universal) Gr\"obner bases of determinantal ideals were identified and the key role played by Bernd Sturmfels and his collaborators in this enterprise., Comment: Written on the occasion of Bernd Sturmfels' sixtieth birthday conference (2022) and dedicated to him

Let $X$ be the union of $n$ generic linear subspaces of codimension $>1$ in $\mathbb{P}^d$. Improving an earlier bound due to Derksen and Sidman, we prove that the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of $X$ satisfies $ \operatorname{reg}(X) \le n - [n / (2d-1)]$., Comment: 21 pages

Let $R$ be a finitely generated $\mathbb N$-graded algebra domain over a Noetherian ring and let $I$ be a homogeneous ideal of $R$. Given $P\in Ass(R/I)$ one defines the $v$-invariant $v_P(I)$ of $I$ at $P$ as the least $c\in \mathbb N$ such that $P=I:f$ for some $f\in R_c$. A classical result of Brodmann asserts that $Ass(R/I^n)$ is constant for large $n$. So it makes sense to consider a prime ideal $P\in Ass(R/I^n)$ for all the large $n$ and investigate how $v_P(I^n)$ depends on $n$. We prove that $v_P(I^n)$ is eventually a linear function of $n$. When $R$ is the polynomial ring over a field this statement has been proved independently also by Ficarra and Sgroi in a recent preprint., Comment: the final version of this note is going to appear in PAMS

A Taylor variety consists of all fixed order Taylor polynomials of rational functions, where the number of variables and degrees of numerators and denominators are fixed. In one variable, Taylor varieties are given by rank constraints on Hankel matrices. Inversion of the natural parametrization is known as Pad\'e approximation. We study the dimension and defining ideals of Taylor varieties. Taylor hypersurfaces are interesting for projective geometry, since their Hessians tend to vanish. In three and more variables, there exist defective Taylor varieties whose dimension is smaller than the number of parameters. We explain this with Fr\"oberg's Conjecture in commutative algebra., Comment: 20 pages

The maximal minors of a matrix of indeterminates are a universal Gr\"obner basis by a theorem of Bernstein, Sturmfels and Zelevinsky. On the other hand it is known that they are not always a universal Sagbi basis. By an experimental approach we discuss their behavior under varying monomial orders and their extensions to Sagbi bases. These experiments motivated a new implementation of the Sagbi algorithm which is organized in a Singular script and falls back on Normaliz for the combinatorial computations. In comparison to packages in the current standard distributions of Macaulay 2 and Singular it extends the range of computability by at least one order of magnitude., Comment: Final version. To appear in the Journal of Symbolic Computation

We study several properties of multihomogeneous prime ideals. We show that the multigraded generic initial ideal of a prime has very special properties, for instance, its radical is Cohen-Macaulay. We develop a comprehensive study of multidegrees in arbitrary positive multigraded settings. In these environments, we extend the notion of Cartwright-Sturmfels ideals by means of a standardization technique. Furthermore, we recover or extend important results in the literature, for instance: we provide a multidegree version of Hartshorne's result stating the upper semicontinuity of arithmetic degree under flat degenerations, and we give an alternative proof of Brion's result regarding multiplicity-free varieties., Comment: to appear in Advances in Mathematics

Can one tell if an ideal is radical just by looking at the degrees of the generators? In general, this is hopeless. However, there are special collections of degrees in multigraded polynomial rings, with the property that any multigraded ideal generated by elements of those degrees is radical. We call such a collection of degrees a radical support. In this paper, we give a combinatorial characterization of radical supports. Our characterization is in terms of properties of cycles in an associated labelled graph. We also show that the notion of radical support is closely related to that of Cartwright-Sturmfels ideals. In fact, any ideal generated by multigraded generators whose multidegrees form a radical support is a Cartwright-Sturmfels ideal. Conversely, a collection of degrees such that any multigraded ideal generated by elements of those degrees is Cartwright-Sturmfels is a radical support., Comment: 11 pages, 7 figures

We prove a doubly exponential bound for the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of prime ideals defining varieties with polynomial parametrisation., Comment: To appear in Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Scienze

This note has two goals. The first is to give a short and self contained introduction to the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity for standard graded ring $R$ over a general base ring. The second is to present a simple and concise proof of a classical result due to Cutkosky, Herzog and Trung and, independently, to Kodiyalam asserting that the regularity of powers of an homogeneous ideal $I$ of $R$ is eventually a linear function in $v$. Finally we show how the flexibility of the definition of the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity over general base rings can be used to give a simple characterization of the ideals whose powers have a linear resolution in terms of the regularity of the Rees ring., Comment: The paper is dedicated to David Eisenbud on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday

The goal of this short note is to study the secant varieties of the triple Segre product of type (1,a,b) by means of the standard tools of combinatorial commutative algebra. We reprove and extend to arbitrary characteristic results of Landsberg and Weyman regarding the defining ideal and the Cohen-Macaulay property of the secant varieties. Furthermore for these varieties we compute the degree and give a bound for their Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity which is sharp in many cases., Comment: Typos corrected. After the paper was published we came to know that our results have some overlap with the paper "Gr\"obner bases and the Cohen-Macaulay property of Li's double determinantal varieties" by Fieldsteel, Nathan; Klein, Patricia arXiv:1906.06817 published in Proc. Amer. Math. Soc. Ser. B 7 (2020), 142--158

Let $I_1,\dots,I_n$ be ideals generated by linear forms in a polynomial ring over an infinite field and let $J = I_1 \cdots I_n$. We describe a minimal free resolution of $J$ and show that it is supported on a polymatroid obtained from the underlying representable polymatroid by means of the so-called Dilworth truncation. Formulas for the projective dimension and Betti numbers are given in terms of the polymatroid as well as a characterization of the associated primes. Along the way we show that $J$ has linear quotients. In fact, we do this for a large class of ideals $J_P$, where $P$ is a certain poset ideal associated to the underlying subspace arrangement., Comment: 15 pages, added a new section describing an irredundant primary decomposition of $J$

Macaulay's theorem and Fr\"oberg's conjecture deal with the Hilbert function of homogeneous ideals in polynomial rings $S$ over a field $K$. In this short note we present some questions related to variants of Macaulay's theorem and Fr\"oberg's conjecture for $K$-subalgebras of polynomial rings. In details, given a subspace $V$ of forms of degree $d$ we consider the $K$-subalgebra $K[V]$ of $S$ generated by $V$. What can be said about Hilbert function of $K[V]$? The analogy with the ideal case suggests several questions. To state them we start by recalling Macaulay's theorem, Fr\"oberg's conjecture and Gotzmann's persistence theorem for ideals. Then we presents the variants for $K$-subalgebras along with some partial results and examples., Comment: A short note written to celebrate the 50-th anniversary of the "Rendiconti dell'Istituto di Matematica dell'Universit\`a di Trieste". To appear in Rend. Istit. Mat. Univ. Trieste Volume 50 (2018)

Linear regression without correspondences is the problem of performing a linear regression fit to a dataset for which the correspondences between the independent samples and the observations are unknown. Such a problem naturally arises in diverse domains such as computer vision, data mining, communications and biology. In its simplest form, it is tantamount to solving a linear system of equations, for which the entries of the right hand side vector have been permuted. This type of data corruption renders the linear regression task considerably harder, even in the absence of other corruptions, such as noise, outliers or missing entries. Existing methods are either applicable only to noiseless data or they are very sensitive to initialization or they work only for partially shuffled data. In this paper we address these issues via an algebraic geometric approach, which uses symmetric polynomials to extract permutation-invariant constraints that the parameters $\xi^* \in \Re^n$ of the linear regression model must satisfy. This naturally leads to a polynomial system of $n$ equations in $n$ unknowns, which contains $\xi^*$ in its root locus. Using the machinery of algebraic geometry we prove that as long as the independent samples are generic, this polynomial system is always consistent with at most $n!$ complex roots, regardless of any type of corruption inflicted on the observations. The algorithmic implication of this fact is that one can always solve this polynomial system and use its most suitable root as initialization to the Expectation Maximization algorithm. To the best of our knowledge, the resulting method is the first working solution for small values of $n$ able to handle thousands of fully shuffled noisy observations in milliseconds., Comment: 13 pages

Let I be a homogeneous ideal of a polynomial ring S. We prove that if the initial ideal J of I, w.r.t. a term order on S, is square-free, then the extremal Betti numbers of S/I and of S/J coincide. In particular, depth(S/I)=depth(S/J) and reg(S/I)=reg(S/J)., Comment: Minor changes throughout. A compressed version of the paper will appear in Inventions Mathematicae

Motivated by questions in algebra and combinatorics we study two ideals associated to a simple graph G: --> the Lovasz-Saks-Schrijver ideal defining the d-dimensional orthogonal representations of the graph complementary to G and --> the determinantal ideal of the (d+1)-minors of a generic symmetric with 0s in positions prescribed by the graph G. In characteristic 0 these two ideals turns out to be closely related and algebraic properties such as being radical, prime or a complete intersection transfer from the Lovasz-Saks-Schrijver ideal to the determinantal ideal. For Lovasz-Saks-Schrijver ideals we link these properties to combinatorial properties of G and show that they always hold for d large enough. For specific classes of graph, such a forests, we can give a complete picture and classify the radical, prime and complete intersection Lovasz-Saks-Schrijver ideals., Comment: Paper restructured

We show that the Koszul homology algebra of the second Veronese subalgebra of a polynomial ring over a field of characteristic zero is generated, as an algebra, by the homology classes corresponding to the syzygies of the lowest linear strand., Comment: 7 pages

We present algebraic and geometric arguments that give a complete classification of the rational normal scrolls that are hyperplane section of a given rational normal scrolls., Comment: To appear in the special issue of the Bull. Math. Soc. Sci. Math. Roumanie honoring Prof. Dorin Popescu

Hankel determinantal rings, i.e., determinantal rings defined by minors of Hankel matrices of indeterminates, arise as homogeneous coordinate rings of higher order secant varieties of rational normal curves; they may also be viewed as linear specializations of generic determinantal rings. We prove that, over fields of characteristic zero, Hankel determinantal rings have rational singularities; in the case of positive prime characteristic, we prove that they are F-pure. Independent of the characteristic, we give a complete description of the divisor class groups of these rings, and show that each divisor class group element is the class of a maximal Cohen-Macaulay module.

Conca and Herzog proved that any product of ideals of linear forms in a polynomial ring has a linear resolution. The goal of this paper is to establish the same result for any quadric hypersurface. The main tool we develop and use is a flexible version of Derksen and Sidman's approximation systems., Comment: 14 pages

This work concerns the moment map $\mu$ associated with the standard representation of a classical Lie algebra. For applications to deformation quantization it is desirable that $S/(\mu)$, the coordinate algebra of the zero fibre of $\mu$, be Koszul. The main result is that this algebra is not Koszul for the standard representation of $\mathfrak{sl}_{n}$, and of $\mathfrak{sp}_{n}$. This is deduced from a computation of the Betti numbers of $S/(\mu)$ as an $S$-module, which are of interest also from the point of view of commutative algebra., Comment: Revised version. Differences to version 1: title slightly changed, comments added at the end, minor revisions

Inspired by work of Cartwright and Sturmfels, in a previous paper we introduced two classes of multigraded ideals named after them. These ideals are defined in terms of properties of their multigraded generic initial ideals. The goal of this paper is showing that three families of ideals that have recently attracted the attention of researchers are Cartwright-Sturmfels ideals. More specifically, we prove that binomial edge ideals, multigraded homogenizations of linear spaces, and multiview ideals are Cartwright-Sturmfels ideals, hence recovering and extending recent results of Herzog-Hibi-Hreinsdottir-Kahle-Rauh, Ohtani, Ardila-Boocher, Aholt-Sturmfels-Thomas, and Binglin Li. We also propose a conjecture on the rigidity of local cohomology modules of Cartwright-Sturmfels ideals, that was inspired by a theorem of Brion. We provide some evidence for the conjecture by proving it in the monomial case., Comment: 22 pages. We are grateful to Giulia Gaggero for pointing out a mistake in the proof of Theorem 2.1, which we corrected in the current version

New title and minor adjustments. To appear in the Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra, Comment: Dedicated to the memory of our friend Tony Geramita

Let I be either the ideal of maximal minors or the ideal of 2-minors of a row graded or column graded matrix of linear forms L. In two previous papers we showed that I is a Cartwright-Sturmfels ideal, that is, the multigraded generic initial ideal gin(I) of I is radical (and essentially independent of the term order chosen). In this paper we describe generators and prime decomposition of gin(I) in terms of data related to the linear dependences among the row or columns of the submatrices of L. In the case of 2-minors we also give a closed formula for its multigraded Hilbert series., Comment: 14 pages

We describe the universal Groebner basis of the ideal of maximal minors and the ideal of $2$-minors of a multigraded matrix of linear forms. Our results imply that the ideals are radical and provide bounds on the regularity. In particular, the ideals of maximal minors have linear resolutions. Our main theoretical contribution consists of introducing two new classes of ideals named after Cartwright and Sturmfels, and proving that they are closed under multigraded hyperplane sections. The gins of the ideals that we study enjoy special properties., Comment: 10 pages

The goal of this paper is to present examples of families of homogeneous ideals in the polynomial ring over a field that satisfy the following condition: every product of ideals of the family has a linear free resolution. As we will see, this condition is strongly correlated to good primary decompositions of the products and good homological and arithmetical properties of the associated multi-Rees algebras. The following families will be discussed in detail: polymatroidal ideals, ideals generated by linear forms and Borel fixed ideals of maximal minors. The main tools are Gr\"obner bases and Sagbi deformation.

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 surprising 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 Gr\"obner basis of quadrics.

We study absolutely Koszul algebras, Koszul algebras with the Backelin-Roos property and their behavior under standard algebraic operations. In particular, we identify some Veronese subrings of polynomial rings that have the Backelin-Roos property and conjecture that the list is indeed complete. Among other things, we prove that every universally Koszul ring defined by monomials has the Backelin-Roos property.

Inspired by recent results of Ein, Lazarsfeld, Erman and Zhou on the non-vanishing of Betti numbers of high Veronese subrings, we describe the behaviour of the Betti numbers of Stanley-Reisner rings associated with iterated barycentric or edgewise subdivisions of a given simplicial complex. Our results show that for a simplicial complex $\Delta$ of dimension $d-1$ and for $1\leq j\leq d-1$ the number of $0$'s the j-th linear strand of the minimal free resolution of the r-th barycentric or edgewise subdivision is bounded above only in terms of $d$ and $j$ (and independently of $r$)., Comment: changed title, 32 pages

We show that the ideal generated by the $(n-2)$ minors of a general symmetric $n$ by $n$ matrix has an initial ideal that is the Stanley-Reisner ideal of the boundary complex of a simplicial polytope and has the same Betti numbers.