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Prime ideals and three-generated ideals with large regularity

Commutative Algebra 2023-05-12 v1

Abstract

Ananyan and Hochster proved the existence of a function Φ(m,d)\Phi(m,d) such that any graded ideal II generated by mm forms of degree at most dd in a standard graded polynomial ring satisfies reg(I)Φ(m,d)\mathrm{reg}(I) \le \Phi(m,d). Relatedly, Caviglia et. al. proved the existence of a function Ψ(e)\Psi(e) such that any nondegenerate prime ideal PP of degree ee in a standard graded polynomial ring over an algebraically closed field satisfies reg(P)Ψ(deg(P))\mathrm{reg}(P) \le \Psi(\mathrm{deg}(P)). We provide a construction showing that both Φ(3,d)\Phi(3,d) and Ψ(e)\Psi(e) must be at least doubly exponential in dd and ee, respectively. Previously known lower bounds were merely super-polynomial in both cases.

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@article{arxiv.2305.06532,
  title  = {Prime ideals and three-generated ideals with large regularity},
  author = {Jason McCullough},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.06532},
  year   = {2023}
}

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