On a Conjecture of R. P. Stanley; Part II--Quotients Modulo Monomial Ideals

Abstract

In 1982 Richard P. Stanley conjectured that any finitely generated \Bbb Zn-graded module M over a finitely generated \Bbb Nn-graded \Bbb K-algebra R can be decomposed as a direct sum M e ⊕i e 1t νiSi of finitely many free modules νiSi which have to satisfy some additional conditions. Besides homogeneity conditions the most important restriction is that the Si have to be subalgebras of R of dimension at least depth M. We will study this conjecture for modules M e R/I, where R is a polynomial ring and I a monomial ideal. In particular, we will prove that Stanley's Conjecture holds for the quotient modulo any generic monomial ideal, the quotient modulo any monomial ideal in at most three variables, and for any cogeneric Cohen-Macaulay ring. Finally, we will give an outlook to Stanley decompositions of arbitrary graded polynomial modules. In particular, we obtain a more general result in the 3-variate case.