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  Editors-in-chief: C. A. Athanasiadis, T. Lam, A. Munemasa, H. Van Maldeghem
ISSN 0925-9899 (print) • ISSN 1572-9192 (electronic)
 

Arithmetical rank of squarefree monomial ideals of small arithmetic degree

Kyouko Kimura1 , Naoki Terai2 and Ken-ichi Yoshida1
1Nagoya University Graduate School of Mathematics Nagoya 464-8602 Japan
2Saga University Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Culture and Education Saga 840-8502 Japan

DOI: 10.1007/s10801-008-0142-3

Abstract

In this paper, we prove that the arithmetical rank of a squarefree monomial ideal I is equal to the projective dimension of R/ I in the following cases: (a)  I is an almost complete intersection; (b) arithdeg\thinspace  I=reg\thinspace  I; (c) arithdeg\thinspace  I=indeg\thinspace  I+1.
We also classify all almost complete intersection squarefree monomial ideals in terms of hypergraphs, and use this classification in the proof in case (c).

Pages: 389–404

Keywords: keywords arithmetical rank; almost complete intersection; Alexander duality; regularity; arithmetic degree; initial degree

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