Support posets of some monomial ideals

Abstract

The support poset of a monomial ideal $I\subseteq \mathbf{k}[x_1,\dots ,x_n]$ encodes the relation between the variables $x_1,\dots ,x_n$ and the minimal monomial generators of $I$. It is known that not every poset is realizable as the support poset of some monomial ideal. We describe some posets $P$ for which we can explicitly find at least one monomial ideal $I_P$ such that $P$ is the support poset of $I_P$. Also, for some families of monomial ideals we describe their support posets and study their properties. As an example of application we examine the relation between forests and series-parallel ideals.

Key words: Monomial ideals, support posets, series-parallel systems