Stability of depth and Stanley depth of symbolic powers of squarefree monomial ideals

Abstract

Let $\mathbb{K}$ be a field and $S=\mathbb{K}[x_1,\dots,x_n]$ be the polynomial ring in $n$ variables over $\mathbb{K}$. Assume that $I\subset S$ is a squarefree monomial ideal. For every integer $k\geq 1$, we denote the $k$-th symbolic power of $I$ by $I^{(k)}$. Recently, Montaño and Núñez-Betancourt \cite{mn} proved that for every pair of integers $m, k\geq 1$,$${\rm depth}(S/I^{(m)})\leq {\rm depth}(S/I^{(\lceil\frac{m}{k}\rceil)}).$$We provide an alternative proof for this inequality. Moreover, we reprove the known results that the sequence $\{{\rm depth}(S/I^{(k)})\}_{k=1}^{\infty}$ is convergent and$$\min_k{\rm depth}(S/I^{(k)})=\lim_{k\rightarrow \infty}{\rm depth}(S/I^{(k)})=n-\ell_s(I),$$where $\ell_s(I)$ denotes the symbolic analytic spread of $I$. We also determine an upper bound for the index of depth stability of symbolic powers of $I$. Next, we consider the Stanley depth of symbolic powers and prove that the sequences $\{{\rm sdepth}(S/I^{(k)})\}_{k=1}^{\infty}$ and $\{{\rm sdepth}(I^{(k)})\}_{k=1}^{\infty}$ are convergent and the limit of each sequence is equal to its minimum. Furthermore, we determine an upper bound for the indices of sdepth stability of symbolic powers.