Segre embeddings, Hilbert series and Newcomb's problem

Monomial ideals and toric rings are closely related. By consider a Grobner basis we can always associated to any ideal $I$ in a polynomial ring a monomial ideal ${\rm in}\prec I$, in some special situations the monomial ideal ${\rm in}\prec I$ is square free. On the other hand given any monomial ideal $I$ of a polynomial ring $S$, we can define the toric $K[I]\subset S$. In this paper we will study toric rings defined by Segre embeddings, we will prove that their $h-$ vectors coincides with the so called Simon Newcomb number's in probabilities and combinatorics. We solve the original question of Simon Newcomb by given a formula for the Simon Newcomb's numbers involving only positive integer numbers.

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Source https://hal.science/hal-00839652
Author Morales, Marcel
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 7, 2026, 09:08 (UTC)
Created May 7, 2026, 09:08 (UTC)
Identifier hal-00839652
Language en
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contributor Institut Fourier (IF) ; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])
creator Morales, Marcel
date 2013-06-28T00:00:00
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harvest_source_title test moissonnage SELUNE
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