Monomial localizations and polymatroidal ideals (Q1940363)

All the monomial localizations of polymatroidal ideals have linear resolutions. Moreover, matroidal ideals are characterized by this property. This paper considers the question of whether the property that all the monomial localizations have linear resolution characterizes polymatroidal ideals. The authors conjecture that this is indeed the case and proof several cases in which their conjecture holds: 1) Ideals generated in degree 2 (Proposition 2.1), 2) Ideals that contain at least \(n\)-1 pure powers (Proposition 2.4), 3) Ideals generated in at most three variables, and 4) Ideals \(I\) that have no embedded primes and such that \(| \mathrm{Ass}(S/I)|\leq 3\) or \(\mathrm{height}(I)=n-1\) (Proposition 2.8). In Section 3 of the paper, the authors extend the notion of polymatroidal ideals to monomial ideals which are not necessarily generated in a single degree, defining componentwise polymatroidal ideals. The authors show in Proposition 3.2 that in contrast to polymatroidal ideals, powers of componentwise polymatroidal ideals need not be componentwise polymatroidal unless the ideal is generated in at most two degrees. The authors also explore the relations between the properties of componentwise plymatroidal and nonpure exchange property. They show that the former implies the latter (Proposition 3.5) but that the converse does not hold in general.