English

Ideals with an assigned initial ideal

Commutative Algebra 2010-05-10 v4 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

The stratum St(J,<) (the homogeneous stratum Sth(J,<) respectively) of a monomial ideal J in a polynomial ring R is the family of all (homogeneous) ideals of R whose initial ideal with respect to the term order < is J. St(J,<) and Sth(J,<) have a natural structure of affine schemes. Moreover they are homogeneous w.r.t. a non-standard grading called level. This property allows us to draw consequences that are interesting from both a theoretical and a computational point of view. For instance a smooth stratum is always isomorphic to an affine space (Corollary 3.6). As applications, in Sec. 5 we prove that strata and homogeneous strata w.r.t. any term ordering < of every saturated Lex-segment ideal J are smooth. For Sth(J,Lex) we also give a formula for the dimension. In the same way in Sec. 6 we consider any ideal R in k[x0,..., xn] generated by a saturated RevLex-segment ideal in k[x,y,z]. We also prove that Sth(R,RevLex) is smooth and give a formula for its dimension.

Keywords

Cite

@article{arxiv.0807.3877,
  title  = {Ideals with an assigned initial ideal},
  author = {Margherita Roggero and Lea Terracini},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0807.3877},
  year   = {2010}
}

Comments

14 pages, improved version, some more examples

R2 v1 2026-06-21T11:03:55.393Z