The Betti-number conjecture for elementary and complete homogeneous symmetric cubics

Let n3n\geq 3, and consider the ideals

Ih=(x13,,xn3,h3),Ie=(x13,,xn3,e3)I_h=(x_1^3,\ldots,x_n^3,h_3),\qquad I_e=(x_1^3,\ldots,x_n^3,e_3)

in ck[x1,,xn]ck[x_1,\ldots,x_n], where h3h_3 and e3e_3 are respectively the complete homogeneous and elementary symmetric polynomials of degree 33.

Betti-number conjecture. The ideals IhI_h and IeI_e have the same Betti numbers if and only if n=3an=3a for some integer aa.

The conjecture concerns finer homological data than the Hilbert series. The source notes that agreement of Hilbert series is expected when nn is a multiple of 33, while agreement of Betti tables is conjectured exactly in those cases; this remains open.

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Primary source

Filip Jonsson Kling and Samuel Lundqvist, “On maximal rank properties for symmetric polynomials in an equigenerated monomial complete intersection”, arXiv:2601.15978 (2026).

Additional references

16 papers in this index state this conjecture (2000–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2512.10812, arXiv:2503.16736, arXiv:2409.12283, arXiv:2406.10189, arXiv:2307.05770, arXiv:2304.13675, arXiv:2209.13503, arXiv:2101.07279, arXiv:2006.14434, arXiv:2005.12349, arXiv:1709.05055, arXiv:0910.1610, and 3 more.

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