On stability properties of powers of polymatroidal ideals (Q2323310)

Let \(R = K[x_1,\ldots, x_n]\) be the polynomial ring over a field \(K\) and let \(I\) be a monomial ideal of \(R\). Following \textit{M. Brodmann}'s result [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 74, 16--18 (1979; Zbl 0372.13010)], let \(\mathrm{astab}(I)\) and \(\mathrm{dstab}(I)\) be the smallest integer \(t\) for which \(\mathrm{Ass}(I^t)\) and \(\mathrm{depth}(I^t)\) stabilize, respectively. In the paper under review, the authors prove the following: Theorem. For a monomial ideal \(I\) we have the equality \(\mathrm{astab}(I) = \mathrm{dstab}(I)\), if one of the following statement holds: \begin{itemize} \item[(i)] \(I\) is a matroidal ideal and \(n \le 5\). \item[(ii)] \(I\) is a polymatroidal ideal, \(n = 4\) and \(\mathfrak{m}\in \mathrm{ Ass}^\infty(I)\), where \(\mathrm{Ass}^\infty(I)\) is the stable set of associated prime ideals of \(I\). \item[(iii)] \(I\) is a polymatroidal ideal of degree 2. \end{itemize} In addition, they give an example of a polymatroidal ideal \(I\) for which \(\mathrm{astab}(I)\neq \mathrm{dstab}(I)\).