On the weak Lefschetz property for ideals generated by powers of general linear forms

Abstract

We provide a description of initial ideals for almost complete intersections generated by powers of general linear forms and prove that WLP in a fixed degree $d$ holds when the number of variables $n$ is sufficiently large compared to $d$. In particular, we show that if $n\geq 3d-2$ then WLP holds for the ideal generated by squares at the degree $d$ spot and for $n\ge \frac{3d-3}{2}$ WLP holds for ideal generated by cubes at the degree $d$ spot. Finally, we prove that WLP fails for the ideal generated by squares when $n< 3d -2$ at the $d$th spot by finding an explicit element in the kernel of the multiplication by a general linear form. This shows that our bound on $n$ is sharp in the case of the squares.