Symbolic powers and integral closures via extremal ideals

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Auteurs principaux: Chau, Trung, Duval, Art, Faridi, Sara, Holleben, Thiago, Morey, Susan, Şega, Liana
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Publié: 2026
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author Chau, Trung
Duval, Art
Faridi, Sara
Holleben, Thiago
Morey, Susan
Şega, Liana
author_facet Chau, Trung
Duval, Art
Faridi, Sara
Holleben, Thiago
Morey, Susan
Şega, Liana
contents This paper demonstrates that extremal ideals can be used to great effect to compute integral closures of powers and symbolic powers of square-free monomial ideals. We show that the generators of these powers are images of the generators of the corresponding powers of extremal ideals under a specific ring homomorphism. Extremal ideals provide sharp bounds for a variety of invariants widely studied in the literature, including resurgence, asymptotic resurgence, and symbolic defect, as well as Betti numbers of symbolic powers and of integral closures of powers of square-free monomial ideals. When restricted to the class of extremal ideals, algebraic computations are reduced to problems of discrete geometry and linear programming, allowing the use of a wide variety of techniques. As a result, in situations where computations are feasible for extremal ideals, we provide concrete sharp bounds for many of these invariants. Our methods reduce finding homological invariants and algebraic constructions for infinitely many ideals to computations for a single highly symmetric ideal, based solely on the number of generators.
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spellingShingle Symbolic powers and integral closures via extremal ideals
Chau, Trung
Duval, Art
Faridi, Sara
Holleben, Thiago
Morey, Susan
Şega, Liana
Commutative Algebra
13F55, 05E40, 13D02, 13C05, 52B20
This paper demonstrates that extremal ideals can be used to great effect to compute integral closures of powers and symbolic powers of square-free monomial ideals. We show that the generators of these powers are images of the generators of the corresponding powers of extremal ideals under a specific ring homomorphism. Extremal ideals provide sharp bounds for a variety of invariants widely studied in the literature, including resurgence, asymptotic resurgence, and symbolic defect, as well as Betti numbers of symbolic powers and of integral closures of powers of square-free monomial ideals. When restricted to the class of extremal ideals, algebraic computations are reduced to problems of discrete geometry and linear programming, allowing the use of a wide variety of techniques. As a result, in situations where computations are feasible for extremal ideals, we provide concrete sharp bounds for many of these invariants. Our methods reduce finding homological invariants and algebraic constructions for infinitely many ideals to computations for a single highly symmetric ideal, based solely on the number of generators.
title Symbolic powers and integral closures via extremal ideals
topic Commutative Algebra
13F55, 05E40, 13D02, 13C05, 52B20
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2602.05076