Betti numbers of symmetric shifted ideals

Abstract: We introduce a new class of monomial ideals which we call symmetric shifted ideals. Symmetric shifted ideals are fixed by the natural action of the symmetric group and, within the class of monomial ideals fixed by this action, they can be considered as an analogue of stable monomial ideals within the class of monomial ideals. We show that a symmetric shifted ideal has linear quotients and compute its (equivariant) graded Betti numbers. As an application of this result, we obtain several consequences for graded Betti numbers of symbolic powers of defining ideals of star configurations.

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A symmetric (strongly) shifted monomial ideal \(I\), in a polynomial ring over a field, is a monomial ideal which is invariant under permutation of variables and moreover it is closed with respect to the operation that, in the \(n\)-tuple of exponents \((e_0,\dots,e_n)\) of a monomial in \(I\), changes \(e_i,e_j\), where \(e_i < e_j\), into \(e_i+1,e_j-1\). These ideals arise in a natural way in the study of symbolic powers of the ideals of \textit{star configurations}. Star configurations are collections of linear subspaces in \(\mathbb P^n\), obtained from the intersections of a fixed, suitably general, finite set of hyperplanes. Star configurations are relevant, for their combinatorial properties, in several aspects of algebraic geometry, both theoretical and devoted to applications. The authors provide a formula for the graded Betti numbers of shifted monomial ideals in terms of the exponents of a set of monomial generators. From the formulas, the author determine other invariants of shifted monomial ideals, as for instance their Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity.

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