Bounds for test exponents

Let K be a field and let S = K[x_1, ..., x_n] be a polynomial ring. Consider a homogenous ideal I in S. Let t_i denote reg(Tor_i (S/I, K)), the maximal degree of an ith syzygy of S/I. We prove bounds on the numbers t_i for i > n/2 purely in terms of the previous t_i. As a result, we give bounds on the regularity of S/I in terms of as few as half of the numbers t_i. We also prove related bounds for arbitrary modules. These bounds are often much smaller than the known doubly ex...

Let $S$ be a polynomial ring over any field $\Bbbk$, and let $P \subseteq S$ be a non-degenerate homogeneous prime ideal of height $h$. When $\Bbbk$ is algebraically closed, a classical result attributed to Castelnuovo establishes an upper bound on the number of linearly independent quadrics contained in $P$ which only depends on $h$. We significantly extend this result by proving that the number of minimal generators of $P$ in any degree $j$ can be bounded above by an explic...

This article is concerned with the number of generators of perfect ideals J in regular local rings (R,m). If J is sufficiently large modulo $m^n$, a bound is established depending only on n and the projective dimension of J. More ambitious conjectures are also introduced with some partial results.

In this paper, we prove a result similar to results of Itoh and Hong-Ulrich, proving that integral closure of an ideal is compatible with specialization by a general element of that ideal for ideals of height at least two in a large class of rings. Moreover, we show integral closure of sufficiently large powers of the ideal is compatible with specialization by a general element of the original ideal. In a polynomial ring over an infinite field, we give a class of squarefree m...

Let $I$ be an equidimensional ideal of a ring polynomial $R$ over $\mathbb{C}$ and let $J$ be its generic linkage. We prove that there is a uniform bound of the difference between the F-pure thresholds of $I_p$ and $J_p$ via the generalized Frobenius powers of ideals. This provides evidence that the F-pure threshold of an equidimensional ideal $I$ is less than that of its generic linkage. As a corollary we recover a result on log canonical thresholds of generic linkage by Niu...

Let $R$ be a polynomial ring in $N$ variables over an arbitrary field $K$ and let $I$ be an ideal of $R$ generated by $n$ polynomials of degree at most 2. We show that there is a bound on the projective dimension of $R/I$ that depends only on $n$, and not on $N$. The proof depends on showing that if $K$ is infinite and $n$ is a positive integer, there exists a positive integer C(n), independent of $N$, such that any $n$ forms of degree at most 2 in $R$ are contained in a subr...

Suppose $I$ is an ideal of a polynomial ring over a field, $I\subseteq k[x_1,\ldots,x_n]$, and whenever $fg\in I$ with degree $\leq b$, then either $f\in I$ or $g\in I$. When $b$ is sufficiently large, it follows that $I$ is prime. Schmidt-G\"ottsch proved that "sufficiently large" can be taken to be a polynomial in the degree of generators of $I$ (with the degree of this polynomial depending on $n$). However Schmidt-G\"ottsch used model-theoretic methods to show this, and di...

Let $I$ be a graded ideal of a standard graded polynomial ring $S$ with coefficients in a field $K$. The asymptotic behaviour of the $\text{v}$-number of the powers of $I$ is investigated. Natural lower and upper bounds which are linear functions in $k$ are determined for $\text{v}(I^k)$. We call $\text{v}(I^k)$ the $\text{v}$-function of $I$. We prove that $\text{v}(I^k)$ is a linear function in $k$ for $k$ large enough, of the form $\text{v}(I^k)=\alpha(I)k+b$, where $\alph...

Let $(R, m)$ be a local ring of prime characteristic $p$ and $q$ a varying power of $p$. We study the asymptotic behavior of the socle of $R/I^{[q]}$ where $I$ is an $m$ -primary ideal of $R$. In the graded case, we define the notion of diagonal $F$-threshold of $R$ as the limit of the top socle degree of $R/m^{[q]}$ over $q$ when $q \to \infty$. Diagonal $F$-threshold exists as a positive number (rational number in the latter case) when: (1) $R$ is either a complete intersec...

Let $I$ be a homogeneous ideal in a polynomial ring $S$. In this paper, we extend the study of the asymptotic behavior of the minimum distance function $\delta_I$ of $I$ and give bounds for its stabilization point, $r_I$, when $I$ is an $F$-pure or a square-free monomial ideal. These bounds are related with the dimension and the Castelnuovo--Mumford regularity of $I$.