An ideal in a polynomial ring encodes a system of linear partial differential equations with constant coefficients. Primary decomposition organizes the solutions to the PDE. This paper develops a novel structure theory for primary ideals in a polynomial ring. We characterize primary ideals in terms of PDE, punctual Hilbert schemes, relative Weyl algebras, and the join construction. Solving the PDE described by a primary ideal amounts to computing Noetherian operators in the sense of Ehrenpreis and Palamodov. We develop new algorithms for this task, and we present efficient implementations.
We introduce differential primary decompositions for ideals in a commutative ring. Ideal membership is characterized by differential conditions. The minimal number of conditions needed is the arithmetic multiplicity. Minimal differential primary decompositions are unique up to change of bases. Our results generalize the construction of Noetherian operators for primary ideals in the analytic theory of Ehrenpreis-Palamodov, and they offer a concise method for representing affine schemes. The case of modules is also addressed. We implemented an algorithm in Macaulay2 that computes the minimal dec…
In this study, we introduce the concept of "uniformly 2-absorbing primary ideals" of commutative rings, which imposes a certain boundedness condition on the usual notion of 2-absorbing primary ideals of commutative rings. Then we investigate some properties of uniformly 2-absorbing primary ideals of commutative rings with examples. Also, we investigate a specific kind of uniformly 2-absorbing primary ideals by the name of "special 2-absorbing primary ideals".
We provide explicit combinatorial descriptions of the primary components of codimension two lattice basis ideals. As an application, we compute the set of parameters for which a bivariate Horn system of hypergeometric differential equations is holonomic.
We define a new generalization of n-absorbing ideals in commutative rings called n-absorbing I-primary ideals. We investigate some characterizations and properties of such new generalization. If P is an n-absorbing I-primary ideal of R and $\sqrt{IP} =I \sqrt{P} $, then $\sqrt{P}$ is a n-absorbing I-primary ideal of R. Also, if $\sqrt{P}$ is an (n-1)-absorbing ideal of R such that $\sqrt{I \sqrt{P}} \subseteq IP$, then P is an n-absorbing I-primary ideal of R.
Given a polynomial ring $C$ over a field and proper ideals $I$ and $J$ whose generating sets involve disjoint variables, we determine how to embed the associated primes of each power of $I+J$ into a collection of primes described in terms of the associated primes of select powers of $I$ and of $J$. We record two applications. First, in case the field is algebraically closed, we construct primary decompositions for powers of $I+J$ from primary decompositions for powers of $I$ and $J$. Separately, we attack the persistence problem for associated primes of powers of an ideal in case one of $I$ or…
Let $G$ be a group with identity $e$ and $R$ be a $G$-graded commutative ring with nonzero unity $1$. In this article, we introduce the concept of graded strongly $1$-absorbing primary ideals. A proper graded ideal $P$ of $R$ is said to be a graded strongly $1$-absorbing primary ideal of $R$ if whenever nonunit homogeneous elements $x, y, z\in R$ such that $xyz\in P$, then either $xy\in P$ or $z\in Grad(\{0\})$ (the graded radical of $\{0\}$). Several properties of graded strongly $1$-absorbing primary ideals are investigated. Many results are given to disclose the relations between this new c…
We characterize monomial ideals which are intersections of monomial prime ideals and study classes of ideals with this property, among them polymatroidal ideals.
In 1936, Krull asked if the integral closure of a primary ideal is still primary. Fifty years later, Huneke partially answered this question by giving a primary polynomial ideal whose integral closure is not primary in a regular local ring of characteristic $p=2$. We provide counterexamples to Krull's question regarding polynomial rings with any characteristics. We also find that the Jacobian ideal $J$ of the polynomial $f = x^6 + y^6 + x^4 z t + z^3$ given by Briançon and Speder in 1975 is a counterexample to Krull's question. Let $V_1$ be the hypersurface defined by $f = 0$ and $V_2$ be its …
Let $G$ be a flat finite-type group scheme over a scheme $S$, and $X$ a noetherian $S$-scheme on which $G$-acts. We define and study $G$-prime and $G$-primary $G$-ideals on $X$ and study their basic properties. In particular, we prove the existence of minimal $G$-primary decomposition and the well-definedness of $G$-associated $G$-primes. We also prove a generalization of Matijevic-Roberts type theorem. In particular, we prove Matijevic-Roberts type theorem on graded rings for $F$-regular and $F$-rational properties.
We investigate the structure of ideals generated by binomials (polynomials with at most two terms) and the schemes and varieties associated to them. The class of binomial ideals contains many classical examples from algebraic geometry, and it has numerous applications within and beyond pure mathematics. The ideals defining toric varieties are precisely the binomial prime ideals. Our main results concern primary decomposition: If $I$ is a binomial ideal then the radical, associated primes, and isolated primary components of $I$ are again binomial, and $I$ admits primary decompositions in terms …
In this paper we study primality and primary decomposition of certain ideals which are generated by homogeneous degree $2$ polynomials and occur naturally from determinantal conditions. Normality is derived from these results.
We study primary submodules and primary decompositions from a differential and computational point of view. Our main theoretical contribution is a general structure theory and a representation theorem for primary submodules of an arbitrary finitely generated module over a polynomial ring. We characterize primary submodules in terms of differential operators and punctual Quot schemes. Moreover, we introduce and implement an algorithm that computes a minimal differential primary decomposition for a module.
Let $R$ be a commutative ring with $1\neq0$. In this article, we introduce the concept of weakly $(m,n)-$closed $δ-$primary ideals of $R$ and explore its basic properties. We show that $I\bowtie^{f}J$ is a weakly $(m,n)-$closed $δ_{\bowtie^{f}}-$primary ideal of $A\bowtie^{f}J$ that is not $(m,n)-$closed $δ_{\bowtie^{f}}-$primary if and only if $I$ is a weakly $(m,n)-$closed $δ-$primary ideal of $A$ that is not $(m,n)-$closed $δ-$primary and for every $δ$-$(m,n)$-unbreakable-zero element $a$ of $I$ we have $(f(a)+j)^{m}=0$ for every $j\in~J$, where $f:A\rightarrow B$ is a homomorphism of rings…
This paper purposes to characterize Noetherian local rings $(A, {\mathfrak m})$ of positive dimension such that the first Hilbert coefficients of ${\mathfrak m}$-primary ideals in $A$ range among only finitely many values. Examples are explored.
In this paper we describe the method which we applied to successfully compute the primary decomposition of a certain ideal coming from applications in combinatorial algebra and algebraic statistics regarding conditional independence statements with hidden variables. While our method is based on the algorithm for primary decomposition by Gianni, Trager and Zacharias, we were not able to decompose the ideal using the standard form of that algorithm, nor by any other method known to us.
Let $R$ be a commutative ring with nonzero identity. Let $\mathcal{I}(R)$ be the set of all ideals of $R$ and let $δ: \mathcal{I}(R)\longrightarrow \mathcal{I}(R)$ be a function. Then $δ$ is called an expansion function of ideals of $R$ if whenever $L, I, J$ are ideals of R with $J \subseteq I$, we have $L \subseteq δ( L)$ and $δ(J)\subseteq δ(I)$. Let $δ$ be an expansion function of ideals of $R$. In this paper, we introduce and investigate a new class of ideals that is closely related to the class of $δ$-primary ideals. A proper ideal $I$ of $R$ is said to be a $1$-absorbing $δ$-primary idea…
We generalize a Briançon-Skoda type theorem first studied by Aberbach and Huneke. With some conditions on a regular local ring $(R,\m)$ containing a field, and an ideal $I$ of $R$ with analytic spread $\ell$ and a minimal reduction $J$, we prove that for all $w \geq -1$, $ \bar{I^{\ell+w}} \subseteq J^{w+1} \mathfrak{a} (I,J),$ where $\mathfrak{a}(I,J)$ is the coefficient ideal of $I$ relative to $J$, i.e. the largest ideal $\mathfrak{b}$ such that $I\mathfrak{b}=J\mathfrak{b}$. Previously, this result was known only for $\m$-primary ideals.
In this article, we introduce and study the concept of $ϕ$-2-absorbing quasi primary ideals in commutative rings. Let $R$ be a commutative ring with a nonzero identity and $L(R)$ be the lattice of all ideals of $R$. Suppose that $ϕ:L(R)\rightarrow L(R)\cup\left\{ \emptyset\right\} $ is a function. A proper ideal $I$ of $R$ is called a $ϕ$-2-absorbing quasiprimary ideal of $R$ if $a,b,c\in R$ and whenever $abc\in I-ϕ(I),$ then either $ab\in\sqrt{I}$ or $ac\in\sqrt{I}$ or $bc\in\sqrt{I}$. In addition to giving many properties of $ϕ$-2-absorbing quasi primary ideals, we also use them to character…
All rings are commutative with $1$ and $n$ is a positive integer. Let $ϕ: J(R)\to J(R)\cup{\emptyset}$ be a function where $J(R)$ denotes the set of all ideals of $R$. We say that a proper ideal $I$ of $R$ is $ϕ$-$n$-absorbing primary if whenever $a_1,a_2,...,a_{n+1}\in R$ and $a_1a_2\cdots a_{n+1}\in I\backslashϕ(I)$, either $a_1a_2\cdots a_n\in I$ or the product of $a_{n+1}$ with $(n-1)$ of $a_1,...,a_n$ is in $\sqrt{I}$. The aim of this paper is to investigate the concept of $ϕ$-$n$-absorbing primary ideals.
Suppose that $R$ is an excellent local domain with maximal ideal $m_R$. The theory of multiplicities and mixed multiplicities of $m_R$-primary ideals extends to (possibly non Noetherian) filtrations of $R$ by $m_R$-primary ideals, and many of the classical theorems for $m_R$-primary ideals continue to hold for filtrations. The celebrated theorems involving inequalities continue to hold for filtrations, but the good conclusions that hold in the case of equality for $m_R$-primary ideals do not hold for filtrations. In this article, we consider multiplicities and mixed multiplicities of $R$ by $m…
This Note provides first a generalization of the stabilization result of Eisenbud and Ulrich for the regularity of powers of a m-primary ideal to the case of ideals that are not generated in a single degree. We then partially extend our previous results expressing this stabilization degree in term of the regularity of a specific graded strand of the Rees ring : The natural extension of the statement holds at least if the stabilization index or the regularity is greater than the number of variables. In any case a precise comparison is given.
It was previously known, by work of Smith-Swanson and of Sharp-Nossem, that the linear growth property of primary decompositions of Frobenius powers of ideals in rings of prime characteristic has strong connections to the localization problem in tight closure theory. The localization problem has recently been settled in the negative by Brenner and Monsky, but the linear growth question is still open. We study growth of primary decompositions of Frobenius powers of dimension one homogeneous ideals in graded rings over fields. If the ring is positively graded we prove that the linear growth prop…
Two formulas for the multiplicity of the fiber cone $F(I)=\oplus_{n=0}^{\infty} I^n/\m I^n$ of an $\m$-primary ideal of a $d$-dimensional Cohen-Macaulay local ring $(R,\m)$ are derived in terms of the mixed multiplicity $e_{d-1}(\m | I),$ the multiplicity $e(I)$ and superficial elements. As a consequence, the Cohen-Macaulay property of $F(I)$ when $I$ has minimal mixed multiplicity or almost minimal mixed multiplicity is characterized in terms of reduction number of $I$ and lengths of certain ideals. We also characterize Cohen-Macaulay and Gorenstein property of fiber cones of $\m$-primary ide…
A natural candidate for a generating set of the (necessarily prime) defining ideal of an $n$-dimensional monomial curve, when the ideal is an almost complete intersection, is a full set of $n$ critical binomials. In a somewhat modified and more tractable context, we prove that, when the exponents are all positive, critical binomial ideals in our sense are not even unmixed for $n\geq 4$, whereas for $n\leq 3$ they are unmixed. We further give a complete description of their isolated primary components as the defining ideals of monomial curves with coefficients. This answers an open question on …
Let $R$ be a commutative ring with unity $(1\not=0)$ and let $\mathfrak{J}(R)$ be the set of all ideals of $R$. Let $ϕ:\mathfrak{J}(R)\rightarrow\mathfrak{J}(R)\cup\{\emptyset\}$ be a reduction function of ideals of $R$ and let $δ:\mathfrak{J}(R)\rightarrow\mathfrak{J}(R)$ be an expansion function of ideals of $R$. We recall that a proper ideal $I$ of $R$ is called a $ϕ$-$δ$-primary ideal of $R$ if whenever $a,b\in R$ and $ab\in I-ϕ(I)$, then $a\in I$ or $b\inδ(I)$. In this paper, we introduce a new class of ideals that is a generalization to the class of $ϕ$-$δ$-primary ideals. Let $S$ be a m…
Let $(A,\frak m)$ be an excellent normal local ring with algebraically closed residue class field. Given integrally closed $\frak m$-primary ideals $I\supset J$, we show that there is a composition series between $I$ and $J$, by integrally closed ideals only. Also we show that any given integrally closed $\fm$-primary ideal $I$, the family of integrally closed ideals $J\subset I, l_A(I/J)=1$ forms an algebraic variety with dimension $\dim A -1$.
We present an alternative method for computing primary decomposition of zero-dimensional ideals over finite fields. Based upon the further decomposition of the invariant subspace of the Frobenius map acting on the quotient algebra in the algorithm given by S. Gao, D. Wan and M. Wang in 2008, we get an alternative approach to compute all the primary components at once. As one example of our method, an improvement of Berlekamp's algorithm by theoretical considerations which computes the factorization of univariate polynomials over finite fields is also obtained.
We characterize the fixed divisor of a polynomial $f(X)$ in $\mathbb{Z}[X]$ by looking at the contraction of the powers of the maximal ideals of the overring ${\rm Int}(\mathbb{Z})$ containing $f(X)$. Given a prime $p$ and a positive integer $n$, we also obtain a complete description of the ideal of polynomials in $\mathbb{Z}[X]$ whose fixed divisor is divisible by $p^n$ in terms of its primary components.
This article concerns monomial ideals fixed by differential operators of affine semi-group rings over $\mathbb{C}$. We give a complete characterization of when this happens. Perhaps surprisingly, every monomial ideal is fixed by an infinite set of homogeneous differential operators and is in fact determined by them. This opens up a new tool for studying monomial ideals. We explore applications of this to (mixed) multiplier ideals and other variants as well as give examples of detecting ideal membership in integrally closed powers and symbolic powers of squarefree monomial ideals.
In this paper, we show how to apply a theorem by Lê D.T. and the author about linear families of curves on normal surface singularities to get new results in this area. The main concept used is a specific definition of {\em general elements} of an ideal in the local ring of the surface. We make explicit the connection between this notion and the elementary notion of general element of a linear pencil, through the use of {\em reduction}. This allows us to prove the invariance of the generic Milnor number (resp. of the multiplicity of the discriminant), between two pencils generating two ideals …
In this paper we consider multi-graded extended Rees algebras of zero dimensional ideals which are Cohen-Macaulay (CM) with minimal multiplicity. We show that the minimal multiplicity property can occur only for the ordinary extended Rees algebra and the bigraded extended Rees algebra. For the bigraded extended Rees algebra we find necessary conditions for it to be CM with minimal multiplicity. We also produce bigraded Rees algebras which are Cohen-Macaulay with minimal multiplicity.
Let $O$ be an order in a quadratic number field $K$ with ring of integers $D$, such that the conductor $\mathfrak F = f D$ is a prime ideal of $O$, where $f\in\mathbb Z$ is a prime. We give a complete description of the $\mathfrak F$-primary ideals of $O$. They form a lattice with a particular structure by layers; the first layer, which is the core of the lattice, consists of those $\mathfrak F$-primary ideals not contained in $\mathfrak F^2$. We get three different cases, according to whether the prime number $f$ is split, inert or ramified in $D$.
We present an algorithm to compute a primary decomposition of an ideal in a polynomial ring over the integers. For this purpose we use algorithms for primary decomposition in polynomial rings over the rationals resp. over finite fields, and the idea of Shimoyama-Yokoyama resp. Eisenbud-Hunecke-Vasconcelos to extract primary ideals from pseudo-primary ideals. A parallelized version of the algorithm is implemented in SINGULAR. Examples and timings are given at the end of the article.
The main purpose of this paper is to investigate prime, primary, and maximal ideals of semirings. The localization and primary decomposition of ideals in semirings are also studied.
Noetherian operators are differential operators that encode primary components of a polynomial ideal. We develop a framework, as well as algorithms, for computing Noetherian operators with local dual spaces, both symbolically and numerically. For a primary ideal, such operators provide an alternative representation to one given by a set of generators. This description fits well with numerical algebraic geometry, taking a step toward the goal of numerical primary decomposition.
Given a local Noetherian ring $(R, {\mathfrak m})$ of dimension $d>0$ and infinite residue field, we study the invariants $($dimension and multiplicity$)$ of the Sally module $S_J(I)$ of any ${\mathfrak m}$-primary ideal $I$ with respect to a minimal reduction $J$. As a by-product we obtain an estimate for the Hilbert coefficients of ${\mathfrak m}$ that generalizes a bound established by J. Elias and G. Valla in a local Cohen-Macaulay setting. We also find sharp estimates for the multiplicity of the special fiber ring ${\mathcal F}(I)$, which recover previous bounds established by C. Polini, …
Students studying the Lasker-Noether theorem on primary decomposition of ideals may want to see an example of an ideal (necessarily in a non-Noetherian ring) which does not have a primary decomposition. The most well-known counterexample is alluded to in an exercise from Atiyah and MacDonald's Commutative Algebra text. It involves the ring of continuous real-valued functions on a compact Hausdorff space, and the details require the use of Urysohn's lemma from topology. In this article, we excise the unnecessary connection to topology by finding a purely algebraic counterexample in the power se…
We generalize the differential dimension polynomial from prime differential ideals to characterizable differential ideals. Its computation is algorithmic, its degree and leading coefficient remain differential birational invariants, and it decides equality of characterizable differential ideals contained in each other.
Let $R$ be a commutative Noetherian ring, $E$ a non-zero finitely generated $R$-module and $I$ an ideal of $R$. One purpose of this paper is to show that the sequences $\Ass_RE/ \widetilde{I_E^n}$ and $\Ass_R\widetilde{I^n _E}/\widetilde{I^{n+1}_E}$, $n = 1,2, \dots$, of associated prime ideals are increasing and eventually stabilize. This extends the main result of Mirbagheri and Ratliff \cite[Theorem 3.1]{MR}. In addition, a characterization concerning the set $\widetilde{A^*}(I,E)$ is included. A second purpose of this paper is to prove that $I$ has linear growth primary decompositions for …
In this paper, we present an algorithm for computing the minimal reductions of $\mathfrak{m}$-primary ideals of Cohen--Macaulay local rings. Using this algorithm, we are able to compute the Hilbert--Samuel multiplicities and solve the membership problem for the integral closure of $\mathfrak{m}$-primary ideals.
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 Gröbner basis of quadrics.
Recent results of Kahle and Miller give a method of constructing primary decompositions of binomial ideals by first constructing "mesoprimary decompositions" determined by their underlying monoid congruences. These mesoprimary decompositions are highly combinatorial in nature, and are designed to parallel standard primary decomposition over Noetherean rings. In this paper, we generalize mesoprimary decomposition from binomial ideals to "binomial submodules" of certain graded modules over the corresponding monoid algebra, analogous to the way primary decomposition of ideals over a Noetherean ri…
Let $\mathfrak{q}$ denote an $\mathfrak{m}$-primary ideal of a $d$-dimensional local ring $(A, \mathfrak{m}).$ Let $\underline{a} = a_1,\ldots,a_d \subset \mathfrak{q}$ be a system of parameters. Then there is the following inequality for the multiplicities $c \cdot e(\mathfrak{q};A) \leq e(\underline{a};A)$ where $c$ denotes the product of the initial degrees of $a_i$ in the form ring $G_A(\mathfrak{q}).$ The aim of the paper is a characterization of the equality as well as a description of the difference by various homological methods via Koszul homology. To this end we have to characterize …
The homological property of the associated graded ring of an ideal is an important problem in commutative algebra and algebraic geometry. In this paper we explore the almost Cohen-Macaulayness of the associated graded ring of stretched $\mathfrak{m}$-primary ideals in the case where the reduction number attains almost minimal value in a Cohen-Macaulay local ring $(A,\mathfrak{m})$. As an application, we present complete descriptions of the associated graded ring of stretched $\mathfrak{m}$-primary ideals with small reduction number.
