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Regularity under Integral Closure: A General Criterion and a Sharp Counterexample
Abstract
We study the behavior of Castelnuovo--Mumford regularity under integral closure. We prove a general cohomological criterion for the inequality reg(J̅)≤ reg(J), and in particular obtain it for every homogeneous ideal in a polynomial ring in at most three variables. The proof uses a high-degree comparison between J̅ and its saturation. We also give a saturated monomial counterexample in four variables, showing that the three-variable result is sharp.
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BibTeX
@misc{misra2026regularity,
title = {{Regularity under Integral Closure: A General Criterion and a Sharp Counterexample}},
author = {Soumyadeep Misra},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = sep,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2605.13879},
eprint = {2605.13879},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13879},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Regularity under Integral Closure: A General Criterion and a Sharp Counterexample
AU - Soumyadeep Misra
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/09/09
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2605.13879
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2605.13879
AB - We study the behavior of Castelnuovo--Mumford regularity under integral closure. We prove a general cohomological criterion for the inequality reg(J̅)≤ reg(J), and in particular obtain it for every homogeneous ideal in a polynomial ring in at most three variables. The proof uses a high-degree comparison between J̅ and its saturation. We also give a saturated monomial counterexample in four variables, showing that the three-variable result is sharp.
ER -