Orderings of monomial ideals (Q4811326)

The aim of the present paper is to study the set of monomial ideals in a polynomial ring from the point of view of combinatorial set theory. Here, this set is regarded as an ordered set with respect to the ordering given by reverse inclusion. In Section 1 there are remarkable the quick proof of a recent result of \textit{D. MacLagan} [Proc. Am. Math. Soc. 129, 1609--1615 (2001; Zbl 0984.13013)], as well as a generalization of this. In Section 2 the authors investigate some invariants of Noetherian ordered sets. They present many results related to the height of a Noetherian ordered set and the type and width of a Noetherian ordered set. Moreover, the authors illustrate some connections between the above invariants (for example, see Proposition 2.10 and Proposition 2.11). Another significant invariant introduced and studied in this section is the minimal order type of a Noetherian ordered set. The end of Section 2 is dedicated to computing all these invariants in the particular case of the ordered set \(N^{m}\). The study of the sets of Hilbert and Hilbert-Samuel polynomials of finitely generated graded \(K\)-algebras (where \(K\) is a field) regarded as ordered sets is the goal of Section 3. The authors obtain an interpretation of the height function on the set consisting of all final segments of \(N^{m}\) in terms of the coefficients of the Hilbert-Samuel polynomial. Very interesting are also the two applications concerning increasing chains of ideals in polynomial rings.