Whiskered-cycle depth formula conjecture for square-free powers

Let W(Cm)W(C_m) be the graph obtained by attaching a whisker to each vertex of the cycle CmC_m, let I(W(Cm))I(W(C_m)) be its edge ideal in the corresponding polynomial ring R=K[xxV(W(Cm))]R=\mathbb{K}[x\mid x\in V(W(C_m))], and let 1km1\leq k\leq m. Whiskered-cycle depth conjecture.

depth(R/I(W(Cm))[k])={m+k1if k=1,,m2,2k1if k=m2+1,,m.\mathrm{depth}(R/I(W(C_m))^{[k]})=\begin{cases}m+k-1 & \text{if } k=1,\ldots,\left\lfloor\frac{m}{2}\right\rfloor,\\ 2k-1 & \text{if } k=\left\lfloor\frac{m}{2}\right\rfloor+1,\ldots,m.\end{cases}

The source derives the cases k=1k=1 and k=2k=2 and bases the formula on computational evidence; the general statement remains open.

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Kanoy Kumar Das, Amit Roy and Kamalesh Saha, “Square-free powers of Cohen-Macaulay forests, cycles, and whiskered cycles”, arXiv:2409.06021 (2024).

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