Prime filtrations and Stanley decompositions of squarefree modules and Alexander duality (Q1041161)

Let \(K\) be a field, \(S=K[x_1,\dots,x_n]\) the polynomial \(K\)-algebra in \(n\) variables and \(M\) a \({\mathbb Z}^n\)-graded finitely generated \(S\)-module. If \(m\in M\) is a \({\mathbb Z}^n\)-homogeneous element and \(Z\subset \{x_1\dots,x_n\}\) then \(mK[Z]\) is a Stanley space if it is free over \(K[Z]\). A decomposition \(\mathcal D\) of \(M\) as a finite direct sum of Stanley spaces \({\mathcal D}:\;\;M=\bigoplus_{i=1}^s m_iK[Z_i]\) is called a Stanley decomposition of \(M\). Stanley conjectured that there exists such \(\mathcal D\) with \(|Z_i|\geq \mathrm{depth}\;M\) for all \(i\). Here the author conjectured that there exists \(\mathcal D\) such that \(|m_i|\leq reg\;M\) for all \(i\). Given a square free \(S\)-module \(M\) in the sense of \textit{K. Yanagawa} [J. Algebra 225, No. 2, 630--645 (2000; Zbl 0981.13011)], it is studied the Alexander dual \(M^{\vee}\) in the sense of \textit{E. Miller} [J. Algebra 231, No. 1, 180--234 (2000; Zbl 0968.13009)]. Prime filtrations of \(M\) correspond bijectively with prime filtrations of \(M^{\vee}\) and the so called square free Stanley decompositions of \(M\) correspond to square free Stanley decompositions of \(M^{\vee}\). It follows that the above conjectures are equivalent on square free \(S\)-modules. \textit{T. Römer} [Osaka J. Math. 38, No. 2, 469--485 (2001; Zbl 0995.13008)] showed that the category of square free \(S\)-modules is equivalent with the category of square free modules over the exterior algebra \(E\) of the \(n\)-dimensional \(K\)-vector space. Thus the above results can be stated also in the frame of square free \(E\)-modules.