A lower bound of Stanley depth of monomial ideals (Q412530)

Let \(I\) be a monomial ideal in the polynomial ring \(S=K[x_1,\dots,x_n]\) with \(K\) a field. The Stanley depth, \(\text{sdepth}\), of a multigraded module (such as \(I\) or \(S/I\)) was defined by \textit{R. P. Stanley} [Invent. Math. 68, 175--193 (1982; Zbl 0516.10009)]. In the same paper, Stanley posed the conjecture that \(\text{sdepth}(I)\geq\text{depth}(I)\). One of the lines of research around this conjecture proceeds by giving bounds for the Stanley depth in different situations. The main result of this paper (Theorem 2.3) states that for a monomial ideal \(I\) minimally generated by \(m\) monomial generators we have \[ \text{sdepth}(I)\geq\max\{ 1,n-\lfloor \frac{m}{2}\rfloor\} \] This improves previous bounds in [\textit{J. Herzog, M. Vladiou} and \textit{X. Zheng}, J. Algebra 322, No. 9, 3151--3169 (2009; Zbl 1186.13019)] and in the squarefree case it answers a question in [\textit{Y. H. Shen}, J. Algebra 321, No. 4, 1285--1292 (2009; Zbl 1167.13010)].