The irreducible decomposition of a monomial ideal has played an important role in combinatorial commutative algebra, with applications beyond pure mathematics, such as biology. Given a monomial ideal $ I $ of a polynomial ring $ S = k[{\bf x}] $ over a field $ k $ and variables $ {\bf x} = \{x_1, \ldots, x_n\} $, its incidence matrix, is the matrix whose rows are indexed by the variables $ {\bf x} $ and whose columns are indexed by its minimal generators. The main contribution of this paper is the introduction of a novel invariant of a monomial ideal $ I $, termed its signature, which could be thought of as a type of canonical form of its incidence matrix, and the proof that two monomial ideals with the same signature have essentially the same irreducible decomposition.
Citation: Jovanny Ibarguen, Daniel S. Moran, Carlos E. Valencia, Rafael H. Villarreal. The signature of a monomial ideal[J]. AIMS Mathematics, 2024, 9(10): 27955-27978. doi: 10.3934/math.20241357
The irreducible decomposition of a monomial ideal has played an important role in combinatorial commutative algebra, with applications beyond pure mathematics, such as biology. Given a monomial ideal $ I $ of a polynomial ring $ S = k[{\bf x}] $ over a field $ k $ and variables $ {\bf x} = \{x_1, \ldots, x_n\} $, its incidence matrix, is the matrix whose rows are indexed by the variables $ {\bf x} $ and whose columns are indexed by its minimal generators. The main contribution of this paper is the introduction of a novel invariant of a monomial ideal $ I $, termed its signature, which could be thought of as a type of canonical form of its incidence matrix, and the proof that two monomial ideals with the same signature have essentially the same irreducible decomposition.
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Jovanny Ibarguen, Daniel S. Moran, Carlos E. Valencia, Rafael H. Villarreal. The signature of a monomial ideal[J]. AIMS Mathematics, 2024, 9(10): 27955-27978. doi: 10.3934/math.20241357
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