Semidualizing modules of $2 \times 2$ ladder determinantal rings

Abstract

We continue our study of ladder determinantal rings over a field $\mathsf k$ from the perspective of semidualizing modules. In particular, given a ladder of variables $Y$, we show that the associated ladder determinantal ring $\mathsf k[Y]/I_2(Y)$ admits exactly $2^n$ non-isomorphic semidualizing modules where $n$ is determined from the combinatorics of the ladder $Y$: the number $n$ is essentially the number of non-Gorenstein factors in a certain decomposition of $Y$. From this, for each $n$, we show explicitly how to find ladders $Y$ such that $\mathsf k[Y]/I_2(Y)$ admits exactly $2^n$ non-isomorphic semidualizing modules. This is in contrast to our previous work, which demonstrates that large classes of ladders have exactly 2 non-isomorphic semidualizing modules.