Comparisons between ordinary and symbolic powers of edge ideals with respect to regularity and depth

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In this paper, we investigate the difference between ordinary and symbolic powers of edge ideals on the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity and the depth. As a main theorem, we prove that the regularities of ordinary and symbolic powers coincide for edge ideals of simplicial graphs, as a partial result of Minh's conjecture. For the depth, we first show that, for each k≥2, the inequality depth S/I^(k)≥depth S/I^k does not hold for squarefree monomial ideals in general. On the other hand, we prove that it holds for edge ideals when k=2,3. We also study the symbolic-ordinary discrepancy module I(G)^(k)/I(G)^k of the edge ideal I(G) of a graph G and give a graph-theoretic formula for its Krull dimension in terms of induced odd cycles of G, thereby answering a question and a problem posed by Ha and Minh.

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@misc{muta2026comparisons,
  title = {{Comparisons between ordinary and symbolic powers of edge ideals with respect to regularity and depth}},
  author = {Yuji Muta},
  howpublished = {arXiv},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2609.05945},
  eprint = {2609.05945},
  archivePrefix = {arXiv},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.05945},
}

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TI  - Comparisons between ordinary and symbolic powers of edge ideals with respect to regularity and depth
AU  - Yuji Muta
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/05
PB  - arXiv
DO  - 10.48550/arxiv.2609.05945
UR  - https://arxiv.org/abs/2609.05945
AB  - In this paper, we investigate the difference between ordinary and symbolic powers of edge ideals on the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity and the depth. As a main theorem, we prove that the regularities of ordinary and symbolic powers coincide for edge ideals of simplicial graphs, as a partial result of Minh's conjecture. For the depth, we first show that, for each k≥2, the inequality depth S/I^(k)≥depth S/I^k does not hold for squarefree monomial ideals in general. On the other hand, we prove that it holds for edge ideals when k=2,3. We also study the symbolic-ordinary discrepancy module I(G)^(k)/I(G)^k of the edge ideal I(G) of a graph G and give a graph-theoretic formula for its Krull dimension in terms of induced odd cycles of G, thereby answering a question and a problem posed by Ha and Minh.
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