Bounded powers of edge ideals: The strong exchange property

TL;DR

This paper investigates when certain monomial generators of bounded powers of edge ideals exhibit the strong exchange property, extending previous work on polymatroidal ideals and their combinatorial properties.

Contribution

It characterizes conditions under which the minimal generators of bounded powers of edge ideals have the strong exchange property, linking to Veronese type ideals.

Findings

Identifies when the generators satisfy the strong exchange property.

Connects the property to ideals of Veronese type.

Extends understanding of polymatroidal structures in monomial ideals.

Abstract

Let $S=K[x_1, \ldots,x_n]$ denote the polynomial ring in $n$ variables over a field $K$ and $I \subset S$ a monomial ideal. Given a vector $\mathfrak{c}\in\mathbb{Z}_{>0}^n$, the ideal $I_{\mathfrak{c}}$ is the ideal generated by those monomials belonging to $I$ whose exponent vectors are componentwise bounded above by $\mathfrak{c}$. Let $\delta_{\mathfrak{c}}(I)$ be the largest integer $q$ for which $(I^q)_{\mathfrak{c}}\neq 0$. Let $I(G) \subset S$ denote the edge ideal of a finite graph $G$ on the vertex set $V(G) = \{x_1, \ldots, x_s\}$. In our previous work, it is shown that $(I(G)^{\delta_{\mathfrak{c}}(I)})_{\mathfrak{c}}$ is a polymatroidal ideal. Let $\mathcal{W}(\mathfrak{c},G)$ denote the minimal system of monomial generators of $(I(G)^{\delta_{\mathfrak{c}}(I)})_{\mathfrak{c}}$. It follows that $\mathcal{W}(\mathfrak{c},G)$ satisfies the symmetric exchange property. In the present paper, the question when $\mathcal{W}(\mathfrak{c},G)$ enjoys the strong exchange property, or equivalently, when $\mathcal{W}(\mathfrak{c},G)$ is of Veronese type is studied.