Cleanness of Cohen-Macaulay monomial ideal generated by at most five elements (Q2313589)

Assume that \(I\) is a monomial ideal in a polynomial ring \(S=\mathbb{K}[x_1,\dots,x_n]\), where \(\mathbb{K}\) is a field. Let \(\mathrm{Min}(I)\) denote the set of minimal primes of \(I\). A chain \[ \mathcal{F}: I=I_0\subset I_1\subset\cdots\subset I_r=S \] of monomial ideals is a prime filtration, if for every integer \(i=1, \ldots r\), there exists a monomial prime ideal \(P_i\) with \(I_i/I_{i-1}\cong S/P_i\). The prime filtration \(\mathcal{F}\) is called clean if \(\mathrm{Min}(I)=\{P_1, \ldots, P_r\}\). The ideal \(I\) is a clean ideal if it admits a clean prime filtration. In the paper under review, it shown that every Cohen-Macaulay monomial ideal generated by at most five elements is clean.