Regularity of symbolic powers of edge ideals of unicyclic graphs (Q2330318)

Let \(K\) be a field and let \(S = K[x_1,\ldots, x_n]\) be the polynomial ring in \(n\) variables over \(K\). To every simple graph \(G\) with vertex set \(V (G) =\{ x_1,\ldots, x_n\}\) and edge set \(E(G)\), we associate its edge ideal \(I = I(G)\) defined by \(I(G)= < x_ix_j |x_ix_j \in E(G)> \subset S\). A conjecture due to N. C. Minh says that for any graph \(G\) and every integer \(t\ge 1\), the equality \(\mathrm{reg}(I(G)^{(t)}) = \mathrm{reg}(I(G)^{t})\) holds, where \(I(G)^{(t)}\) denotes the \(t\)-th symbolic power of \(I(G)\) and \(\mathrm{reg}(I(G))\) is the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of \(I(G)\). As the main result of the paper under review, the author proves the conjectured equality of Minh for any arbitrary unicyclic graph. It is a well-written paper with some interesting methods in proofs.