The trailing terms ideal

Abstract

In this paper, we address the following question: for a nonzero finitely generated ideal [Formula: see text] of a multivariate polynomial ring [Formula: see text] over a coherent ring [Formula: see text], fixing a monomial order [Formula: see text] on [Formula: see text], is the trailing terms ideal [Formula: see text] of [Formula: see text] (that is, the ideal generated by the trailing terms of the nonzero polynomials in [Formula: see text]) finitely generated? We show that while [Formula: see text] can be nonfinitely generated, it is always countably generated when the monomial order is Noetherian (graded monomial orders as instances).