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50 CHAPTER 3. OPERATIONS ON STABLE IDEALS(ii) Since I is saturated and the monomial x B does not contain the variable x n , the idealI con must also be saturated by Theorem 2.13 and the definition <strong>of</strong> the contraction.(iii) A contraction <strong>of</strong> the monomial x B <strong>of</strong> degree d > 0 will always include one moreminimal generator <strong>of</strong> degree d into the set <strong>of</strong> generators (i.e. the monomial x B itself)and remove a set <strong>of</strong> monomials <strong>of</strong> degree d + 1 from the set <strong>of</strong> generators.We sum up the two main results <strong>of</strong> the preceding remark in a lemma.Lemma 3.12. (Properties <strong>of</strong> the ideal I con ) Let I ⊂ R be a saturated stable ideal and letx B = x b 00 · . . . · x bss ∈ M, b s > 0, s ≤ n − 1 be a monomial with x B /∈ I, x B · x s ∈ I gand L(x B ) be contained in I. Then, the ideal I con (contraction <strong>of</strong> the monomial x B ) issaturated and stable.Pro<strong>of</strong>. The assertion has been proved within Remark 3.11.Example 3.13. We consider the ideal I := (x 3 0, x 2 0x 1 , x 2 0x 2 2) ⊂ K[x 0 , x 1 , x 2 , x 3 ], which issaturated and stable. The monomial x 2 0x 2 is contractible in I, since it is not contained inI and the set L(x 2 0x 2 ) consists <strong>of</strong> the two monomials x 3 0 and x 2 0x 1 by Example 3.4. Thus,we obtain L(x 2 0x 2 ) ⊂ I, which shows that the conditions in Definition 3.9 are fulfilled. Thecontraction <strong>of</strong> x 2 0x 2 provides the setI cong = I g ∪ {x 2 0x 2 }\{x 2 0x 2 2} = {x 3 0, x 2 0x 1 , x 2 0x 2 }.As one can easily see, the ideal I con = (x 3 0, x 2 0x 1 , x 2 0x 2 ) is again stable and saturated.Example 3.14. As another example, consider J := (x 2 0, x 0 x 1 , x 0 x 2 ) in K[x 0 , x 1 , x 2 , x 3 ].The double saturation <strong>of</strong> J is the ideal sat x2 ,x 3(J) = (x 0 ). In the following, we will alsouse contractions, to compute the double saturation <strong>of</strong> saturated stable ideals. Hence, notethat we obtain the ideal sat x2 ,x 3(J) by contracting the monomial x 0 in J. This is possible,since x 0 x 2 is contained in J, x 0 itself is not a minimal generator <strong>of</strong> J and L(x 0 ) = ∅ isobviously a subset <strong>of</strong> the ideal. Contraction <strong>of</strong> x 0 provideswhich is the set, generating sat x2 ,x 3(J).J cong = J g ∪ {x 0 }\{x 2 0, x 0 x 1 , x 0 x 2 } = {x 0 },The process <strong>of</strong> the contraction <strong>of</strong> a monomial will not always reduce the number <strong>of</strong> monomialgenerators <strong>of</strong> the ideal considered. As one can see in the example stated above, thenumber <strong>of</strong> monomial generators <strong>of</strong> the new ideal after the contraction, might be the sameas the number <strong>of</strong> generators <strong>of</strong> the ideal one started with.Now we examine the effect <strong>of</strong> an expansion followed by a contraction <strong>of</strong> the same monomialon the set <strong>of</strong> generators <strong>of</strong> a given saturated and stable ideal I ⊂ R. In detail, we willanswer the questions: Given a saturated stable ideal I ⊂ R and a monomial x A ∈ M, x A

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