The Macaulay session which supports Example 4 in Lecture 1 on ``Socle degrees of Frobenius powers''. This Macaulay session calculates the socle degrees of R/J^{[p^e]} for R=ZZ/2[x,y,z]/(f), where J=(x^2,x*z,y^2,y*z,x*y+z^2) and f=x^3+y^3+z^3. We learn: e socle degrees 0 2:1 1 4:7 2 9:12 3 19:12 4 39:12 kustin@berry 6 % M2 Macaulay 2, version 0.9.2 --Copyright 1993-2001, D. R. Grayson and M. E. Stillman --Singular-Factory 2.0.5, copyright 1993-2001, G.-M. Greuel, et al. --Singular-Libfac 2.0.4, copyright 1996-2001, M. Messollen i1 : P=ZZ/2[x,y,z]; i2 : J=ideal(x^2,x*z,y^2,y*z,x*y+z^2); o2 : Ideal of P i3 : FrobPower = (K,e) -> ( p:=char ring K; ans:=ideal(K_0^(p^e)); count:=1; while count < numgens( K ) do( ans=ans+ideal(K_count^(p^e)); count=count+1); return(ans)); i4 : f=x^3+y^3+z^3; i5 : betti basis( ((FrobPower(J,0)+ideal(f)):ideal (x,y,z))/((J+ideal(f)))) o5 = total: 6 1 1: . 1 2: 6 . i6 : betti basis( ((FrobPower(J,1)+ideal(f)):ideal (x,y,z))/((FrobPower(J,1)+ideal(f)))) o6 = total: 13 7 3: 1 7 4: 12 . i7 : betti basis( ((FrobPower(J,2)+ideal(f)):ideal (x,y,z))/((FrobPower(J,2)+ideal(f)))) o7 = total: 18 12 3: 1 . 4: . . 5: . . 6: . . 7: . . 8: 5 12 9: 12 . i8 : betti basis( ((FrobPower(J,3)+ideal(f)):ideal (x,y,z))/((FrobPower(J,3)+ideal(f)))) o8 = total: 18 12 3: 1 . 4: . . 5: . . 6: . . 7: . . 8: . . 9: . . 10: . . 11: . . 12: . . 13: . . 14: . . 15: . . 16: 5 . 17: . . 18: . 12 19: 12 . i9 : betti basis( ((FrobPower(J,4)+ideal(f)):ideal (x,y,z))/((FrobPower(J,4)+ideal(f)))) o9 = total: 18 12 3: 1 . 4: . . 5: . . 6: . . 7: . . 8: . . 9: . . 10: . . 11: . . 12: . . 13: . . 14: . . 15: . . 16: . . 17: . . 18: . . 19: . . 20: . . 21: . . 22: . . 23: . . 24: . . 25: . . 26: . . 27: . . 28: . . 29: . . 30: . . 31: . . 32: 5 . 33: . . 34: . . 35: . . 36: . . 37: . . 38: . 12 39: 12 . i10 :