Date Available
5-6-2021
Year of Publication
2021
Degree Name
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Document Type
Doctoral Dissertation
College
Arts and Sciences
Department/School/Program
Mathematics
First Advisor
Dr. Uwe Nagel
Abstract
Fix a family of ideals in a polynomial ring and consider the problem of finding a single ideal in the family that has Betti numbers that are greater than or equal to the Betti numbers of every ideal in the family. Or decide if this special ideal even exists. Bigatti, Hulett, and Pardue showed that if we take the ideals with a fixed Hilbert function, there is such an ideal: the lexsegment ideal. Caviglia and Murai proved that if we take the saturated ideals with a fixed Hilbert polynomial, there is also such an ideal. We present a generalization of these two situations, an algorithm for determining the existence of these special ideals and finding them when they do exist, and some cases where we guarantee existence.
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.13023/etd.2021.187
Recommended Citation
White, Jay, "Maximums of Total Betti Numbers in Hilbert Families" (2021). Theses and Dissertations--Mathematics. 81.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/math_etds/81
