Depth of the 3-path Ideal of Square of a Path

Abstract

In this note, we compute depth of the 3-path ideal of square of a path and show that the 3-path ideal I3(P 2 n) of square of a path graph is Cohen-Macaulay if and only if n = 3 or 4. Also, we consider the limit behavior of depth of powers of the 3-path ideal of square of a path.