A family of monomial ideals with the persistence property
In this paper, we introduce a family of monomial ideals with the persistence property. Given positive integers [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], we consider the monomial ideal [Formula: see text] generated by all monomials [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is an independent set of vertices of the path graph [Formula: see text] of size [Formula: see text], which is indeed the facet ideal of the [Formula: see text]th skeleton of the independence complex of [Formula: see text]. We describe the set of associated primes of all powers of [Formula: see text] explicitly. It turns out that any such ideal [Formula: see text] has the persistence property. Moreover, the index of stability of [Formula: see text] and the stable set of associated prime ideals of [Formula: see text] are determined.