BERNSTEIN–SATO ROOTS FOR MONOMIAL IDEALS IN POSITIVE CHARACTERISTIC

Abstract

Following the work of Mustaţă and Bitoun, we recently developed a notion of Bernstein–Sato roots for arbitrary ideals, which is a prime characteristic analogue for the roots of the Bernstein–Sato polynomial. Here, we prove that for monomial ideals the roots of the Bernstein–Sato polynomial (over $\mathbb{C}$) agree with the Bernstein–Sato roots of the mod $p$ reductions of the ideal for $p$ large enough. We regard this as evidence that the characteristic-$p$ notion of Bernstein–Sato root is reasonable.