Boij–Söderberg convex-hull conjecture for Betti diagrams

Let m=(m0,,ms)m=(m_0,\ldots,m_s) and M=(M0,,Ms)M=(M_0,\ldots,M_s) be strictly increasing sequences of integers. Let Vm,MV_{m,M} be the vector space of matrices (βi,j)(\beta_{i,j}) satisfying the codimension-ss Herzog–Kühl equations and supported in the ranges mijMim_i\leq j\leq M_i. Let Bm,MB_{m,M} be the additively closed subset consisting of Betti diagrams in this space, let Bˉm,M\bar B_{m,M} be the set of their normalizations by β0\beta_0, and let Πm,M\Pi_{m,M} be the set of pure diagrams π(d)\pi(d) with midiMim_i\leq d_i\leq M_i, where

π(d)i,j={(1)i+1ki\k0dkd0dkdiif j=di,0if jdi.\pi(d)_{i,j}=\begin{cases}(-1)^{i+1}\displaystyle\prod_{\substack{k\neq i\k\neq 0}}\frac{d_k-d_0}{d_k-d_i}&\text{if }j=d_i,\\0&\text{if }j\neq d_i. \end{cases}

Boij–Söderberg convex-hull conjecture. The set Bˉm,M\bar B_{m,M} is the convex hull of Πm,M\Pi_{m,M}.

This conjecture asserts that normalized Betti diagrams with prescribed bounds on their shifts are exactly the convex combinations of pure diagrams in the same region. The source attributes it to Boij and Söderberg but gives no resolution status.

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Juergen Herzog and Xinxian Zheng, “Bounds for Hilbert coefficients”, arXiv:0706.0400 (2007).

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