Harbourne's symbolic-power containment conjecture

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Let k\mathbb{k} be a field, let R=k[x1,…,xd]R=\mathbb{k}[x_1,\ldots,x_d], and let I⊆RI\subseteq R be a radical homogeneous ideal of bigheight hh. Harbourne's conjecture. One has

I(h(n−1)+1)⊆InI^{(h(n-1)+1)}\subseteq I^n

for every n⩾1n\geqslant 1. This refines the uniform symbolic-power containment in prime characteristic and asks for a bound valid for radical homogeneous ideals in polynomial rings. The conjecture is false in general.

References

Primary source

Alessandro De Stefani, Jonathan Montaño and Luis Núñez-Betancourt, “Frobenius methods in combinatorics”, arXiv:2203.09902 (2022).

Additional references

10 papers in this index state this conjecture (2008–2022). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2012.01617, arXiv:2007.12051, arXiv:1903.10647, arXiv:1903.12122, arXiv:1809.06955, arXiv:1702.06876, arXiv:1101.4363, arXiv:0907.4151, arXiv:0810.0728.

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