Prime-product coefficient conjecture for Gröbner bases

Let k\mathbf{k} be a field of characteristic zero, let R=k[x1,,xn]R=\mathbf{k}[x_1,\ldots,x_n], and let

Ia1,,an+1=(x1a1,,xnan,(x1++xn)an+1).I_{a_1,\ldots,a_{n+1}}=(x_1^{a_1},\ldots,x_n^{a_n},(x_1+\cdots+x_n)^{a_{n+1}}).

Fix the reverse lexicographic term order and consider the Gröbner basis of this ideal.

Prime-product coefficient conjecture. Each coefficient occurring in the Gröbner basis of Ia1,,an+1I_{a_1,\ldots,a_{n+1}} is a possibly empty product of primes less than max{a1,,an}\max\{a_1,\ldots,a_n\}.

The claim is motivated by computer experiments. The source verifies the special case a1==an=2a_1=\cdots=a_n=2 through the paper's theorem, but gives no resolution of the general conjecture.

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Filip Jonsson Kling, Samuel Lundqvist, Fatemeh Mohammadi, Matthias Orth and Eduardo Sáenz-de-Cabezón, “Gröbner bases, resolutions, and the Lefschetz properties for powers of a general linear form in the squarefree algebra”, arXiv:2411.10209 (2026).

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