The Betti-number conjecture for elementary and complete homogeneous symmetric cubics
The Betti-number conjecture for elementary and complete homogeneous symmetric cubics
Let , and consider the ideals
in , where and are respectively the complete homogeneous and elementary symmetric polynomials of degree .
Betti-number conjecture. The ideals and have the same Betti numbers if and only if for some integer .
The conjecture concerns finer homological data than the Hilbert series. The source notes that agreement of Hilbert series is expected when is a multiple of , 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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