Symbolic powers of determinantal ideals in prime characteristic

Abstract

We study the symbolic powers of determinantal ideals of generic, generic symmetric, and Hankel matrices of variables, and of Pfaffians of generic skew-symmetric matrices, in prime characteristic. Specifically, we show that the limit $\underset{n\to \infty }{\lim }\frac{\text{reg}(I^{(n)})}{n}$ exists and that $\text{depth}(R/I^{(n)})$ stabilizes for $n\gg 0$. Furthermore, we give explicit formulas for the stable value of $\text{depth}(R/I^{(n)})$ in the generic and skew-symmetric cases. In order to show these results, we introduce the notion of symbolic $F$-purity of ideals which is satisfied by the classes of ideals mentioned above. Moreover, we find several properties satisfied by symbolic $F$-pure ideals. For example, we show that their symbolic Rees algebras and symbolic associated graded algebras are $F$-pure. As a consequence, their $a$-invariants and depths present good behaviors. In addition, we provide a Fedder's-like Criterion for symbolic $F$-purity.

This preprint contained an error in the proof of Lemma 5.4. The mistake has been corrected and the paper has been vastly expanded in another paper available at arXiv:2109.00592