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In this paper, we survey the theory of Cartwright-Sturmfels ideals. These are Z^n-graded ideals, whose multigraded generic initial ideal is radical. Cartwright-Sturmfels ideals have surprising properties, mostly stemming from the fact that their Hilbert scheme only contains one Borel-fixed point. This has consequences, e.g., on their universal Groebner bases and on the family of their initial ideals. In this paper, we discuss several known classes of Cartwright-Sturmfels ideals and we find a new one. Among determinantal ideals of same-size minors of a matrix of variables and Schubert determinantal ideals, we are able to characterize those that are Cartwright-Sturmfels.
What kind of reduced monomial schemes can be obtained as a Grobner degeneration of a smooth projective variety? Our conjectured answer is: only Stanley-Reisner schemes associated to acyclic Cohen-Macaulay simplicial complexes. This would imply, in particular, that only curves of genus zero have such a degeneration. We prove this conjecture for degrevlex orders, for elliptic curves over real number fields, for boundaries of cross-polytopes, and for leafless graphs. We discuss consequences for rational and F-rational singularities of algebras with straightening laws.
Let I be either the ideal of maximal minors or the ideal of 2-minors of a row graded or column graded matrix of linear forms L. In two previous papers we showed that I is a Cartwright-Sturmfels ideal, that is, the multigraded generic initial ideal gin(I) of I is radical (and essentially independent of the term order chosen). In this paper we describe generators and prime decomposition of gin(I) in terms of data related to the linear dependences among the row or columns of the submatrices of L. In the case of 2-minors we also give a closed formula for its multigraded Hilbert series.
We study the behavior of generic initial ideals with respect to fibre products. In our main result we determine the generic initial ideal of the fibre product with respect to the reverse lexicographic order. As an application we compute the symmetric algebraic shifted complex of two disjoint simplicial complexes as was conjectured by Kalai. This result is the symmetric analogue of a theorem of Nevo who determined the exterior algebraic shifted complex of two disjoint simplicial complexes as predicted by Kalai.
We show that the Specht ideal of a two-rowed partition is perfect over an arbitrary field, provided that the characteristic is either zero or bounded below by the size of the second row of the partition, and we show this lower bound is tight. We also establish perfection and other properties of certain variants of Specht ideals, and find a surprising connection to the weak Lefschetz property. Our results in particular give a self-contained proof of Cohen-Macaulayness of certain $h$-equals sets, a result previously obtained by Etingof-Gorsky-Losev over the complex numbers using rational Cherednik algebras.
Over an infinite field $K$ with $mathrm{char}(K) eq 2,3$, we investigate smoothable Gorenstein $K$-points in a punctual Hilbert scheme from a new point of view, which is based on properties of double-generic initial ideals and of marked schemes. We obtain the following results: (i) points defined by graded Gorenstein $K$-algebras with Hilbert function $(1,7,7,1)$ are smoothable, in the further hypothesis that $K$ is algebraically closed; (ii) the Hilbert scheme $mathrm{Hilb}_{16}^7$ has at least three irreducible components. The properties of marked schemes give us a simple method to compute the Zariski tangent space to a Hilbert scheme at a given $K$-point, which is very useful in this context. Over an algebraically closed field of characteristic $0$, we also test our tools to find the already known result that points defined by graded Gorenstein $K$-algebras with Hilbert function $(1,5,5,1)$ are smoothable. In characteristic zero, all the results about smoothable points also hold for local Artin Gorenstein $K$-algebras.