In this thesis we are interested in describing some homological invariants of certain classes of monomial ideals. We will pay attention to the squarefree and non-squarefree lexsegment ideals.
We compute the minimal primary decomposition for completely squarefree lexsegment ideals. We show that critical squarefree monomial ideals are sequentially Cohen-Macaulay. As an application, we give a complete characterization of the completely squar
efree lexsegment ideals which are sequentially Cohen-Macaulay and we also derive formulas for some homological invariants of this class of ideals.
Let $A = K[X_1,ldots, X_d]$ and let $I$, $J$ be monomial ideals in $A$. Let $I_n(J) = (I^n colon J^infty)$ be the $n^{th}$ symbolic power of $I$ wrt $J$. It is easy to see that the function $f^I_J(n) = e_0(I_n(J)/I^n)$ is of quasi-polynomial type, s
ay of period $g$ and degree $c$. For $n gg 0$ say [ f^I_J(n) = a_c(n)n^c + a_{c-1}(n)n^{c-1} + text{lower terms}, ] where for $i = 0, ldots, c$, $a_i colon mathbb{N} rt mathbb{Z}$ are periodic functions of period $g$ and $a_c eq 0$. In an earlier paper we (together with Herzog and Verma) proved that $dim I_n(J)/I^n$ is constant for $n gg 0$ and $a_c(-)$ is a constant. In this paper we prove that if $I$ is generated by some elements of the same degree and height $I geq 2$ then $a_{c-1}(-)$ is also a constant.
An explicit combinatorial minimal free resolution of an arbitrary monomial ideal $I$ in a polynomial ring in $n$ variables over a field of characteristic $0$ is defined canonically, without any choices, using higher-dimensional generalizations of com
bined spanning trees for cycles and cocycles (hedges) in the upper Koszul simplicial complexes of $I$ at lattice points in $mathbb{Z}^n$. The differentials in these sylvan resolutions are expressed as matrices whose entries are sums over lattice paths of weights determined combinatorially by sequences of hedges (hedgerows) along each lattice path. This combinatorics enters via an explicit matroidal expression for the Moore-Penrose pseudoinverses of the differentials in any CW complex as weighted averages of splittings defined by hedges. This Hedge Formula also yields a projection formula from CW chains to boundaries. The translation from Moore-Penrose combinatorics to free resolutions relies on Wall complexes, which construct minimal free resolutions of graded ideals from vertical splittings of Koszul bicomplexes. The algebra of Wall complexes applied to individual hedgerows yields explicit but noncanonical combinatorial minimal free resolutions of arbitrary monomial ideals in any characteristic.
We prove a characterization of the j-multiplicity of a monomial ideal as the normalized volume of a polytopal complex. Our result is an extension of Teissiers volume-theoretic interpretation of the Hilbert-Samuel multiplicity for m-primary monomial i
deals. We also give a description of the epsilon-multiplicity of a monomial ideal in terms of the volume of a region.
Let I=I(D) be the edge ideal of a weighted oriented graph D. We determine the irredundant irreducible decomposition of I. Also, we characterize the associated primes and the unmixed property of I. Furthermore, we give a combinatorial characterization
for the unmixed property of I, when D is bipartite, D is a whisker or D is a cycle. Finally, we study the Cohen-Macaulay property of I.