Footprint and minimum distance functions

Abstract: Let

S

be a polynomial ring over a field

K

, with a monomial order

p r e c

, and let

I

be an unmixed graded ideal of

S

. In this paper we study two functions associated to

I

: the minimum distance function

d e l t a_{I}

and the footprint function

{m f p}_{I}

. It is shown that

d e l t a_{I}

is positive and that

{m f p}_{I}

is positive if the initial ideal of

I

is unmixed. Then we show that if

I

is radical and its associated primes are generated by linear forms, then

d e l t a_{I}

is strictly decreasing until it reaches the asymptotic value

1

. If

I

is the edge ideal of a Cohen--Macaulay bipartite graph, we show that

d e l t a_{I} (d) = 1

for

d

greater than or equal to the regularity of

S / I

. For a graded ideal of dimension

g e q 1

, whose initial ideal is a complete intersection, we give an exact sharp lower bound for the corresponding minimum distance function.

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