The concept of the weakly polymatroidal ideal, which generalizes both the polymatroidal ideal and the prestable ideal, is introduced. A fundamental fact is that every weakly polymatroidal ideal has a linear resolution. One of the typical examples of weakly polymatroidal ideals arises from finite partially ordered sets. We associate each weakly polymatroidal ideal with a finite sequence, alled the polymatroidal sequence, which will be useful for the computation of graded Betti numbers of weakly polymatroidal ideals as well as for the construction of weakly polymatroidal ideals.
The stable set of associated prime ideals of a polymatroidal ideal
