Number of generators of ideals in Jordan cells of the family of graded Artinian algebras of height two (Q6103346)

Let \(k\) be a field, \(R=k[X,Y]\) a polynomial ring, \(\mathfrak{a}\) an ideal of \(R\), and \(A=R/\mathfrak{a}\) a standard graded Artinian algebra with \(n=\operatorname{vdim}_{k}(A)\). The Jordan type \(P_{\ell}\) of a linear form \(\ell \in A_{1}\) is the partition of \(n\) determining the Jordan block decomposition of the multiplication on \(A\) by \(\ell\) which is nilpotent. The first three authors previously determined which partitions of \(n\) may occur as the Jordan type for some linear form \(\ell\) on a graded complete intersection Artinian quotient \(A = R/(f,g)\) of \(R\), and they counted the number of such partitions for each complete intersection Hilbert function \(T\). In this paper, the authors consider the family \(G_{T}\) of graded Artinian quotients \(A = R/\mathfrak{a}\) of \(R\) having arbitrary Hilbert function \(H(A) = T\). The Jordan cell \(\mathbb{V}(E_{P})\) corresponding to a partition \(P\) having diagonal lengths \(T\) is comprised of all ideals \(\mathfrak{a}\) in \(R\) whose initial ideal is the monomial ideal \(E_{P}\) determined by \(P\). These cells give a decomposition of the variety \(G_{T}\) into affine spaces. They determine the generic number \(\kappa(P)\) of generators for the ideals in each cell \(\mathbb{V}(E_{P})\), generalizing a result of their previous work. In particular, they determine those partitions for which \(\kappa(P)=\kappa(T)\), the generic number of generators for an ideal defining an algebra \(A\) in \(G_{T}\). They also count the number of partitions \(P\) of diagonal lengths \(T\) having a given \(\kappa(P)\). A main tool in their work is a combinatorial and geometric result allowing them to split \(T\) and any partition \(P\) of diagonal lengths \(T\) into simpler \(T_{i}\) and partitions \(P_{i}\), such that \(\mathbb{V}(E_{P})\) is the product of the cells \(\mathbb{V}(E_{P_{i}})\), and \(T_{i}\) is single-block; \(G_{T_{i}}\) is a Grassmannian.