On the Stanley depth of squarefree Veronese ideals (Q626443)

Let \(R=K[x_1,\dots,x_n]\) be a polynomial ring over a field \(K\). \textit{R. P. Stanley} defined the Stanley depth of an \(R\)-Module \(M\), denoted \(\mathrm{sdepth}(M)\) and conjectured that \(\mathrm{depth}(M)\leq \mathrm{sdepth}(M)\) for finitely generated modules [Invent. Math. 68, 175--193 (1982; Zbl 0516.10009)]. This conjecture remains open in most cases, in part because \(\mathrm{sdepth}(M)\) is difficult to compute. In this paper the authors, inspired by previous work by \textit{J. Herzog, M. Vladoiu} and \textit{X. Zheng} [J. Algebra 322, No. 9, 3151--3169 (2009; Zbl 1186.13019)], use combinatorial tools to analyze the Stanley depth of squarefree Veronese ideals. Stanley's conjecture was proven for these ideals in the cited paper by Herzog, Vladoiu and Zheng. However, the determination of \(\mathrm{sdepth}(I_{n,d})\) is still difficult. The authors of the present paper provide an exact formula for certain values of \(n\) and \(d\) and a bound for others.The main result of the paper is the following (Theorem 1.1): If \(I_{n,d}\) is the squarefree Veronese ideal generated by all squarefree monomials of degree \(d\) then: - - {If \(1\leq d\leq n < 5d+4\) then \(\mathrm{sdepth}(I_{n,d})=\lfloor(n-d)/(d+1)\rfloor +d\).} -- {If \(d\geq 1\) and \(n \geq 5d+4\) then \(d+3\leq \mathrm{sdepth}(I_{n,d})\leq\lfloor(n-d)/(d+1)\rfloor +d\).}