The Macaulay session which supports Example 6 in Lecture 1 on ``Socle degrees of Frobenius powers''. This Macaulay session calculates the socle degrees of R/J^{[p^e]} for for R=ZZ/2[x,y,z]/(f), where f= x^5+y^5+z^5 and J=(x,y,z). We learn: e soc degrees 0 0:1 1 3:1 2 9:1 3 12:1 16:1 4 22:1 30:1 5 42:1 58:1 kustin@berry 8 % !M 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 , y, z); 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^5+y^5+z^5; i5 : betti basis( ((FrobPower(J,0)+ideal(f)):ideal (x,y,z))/((FrobPower(J,0)+ideal(f)))) o5 = total: 1 1 -1: . 1 0: 1 . i6 : betti basis( ((FrobPower(J,1)+ideal(f)):ideal (x,y,z))/((FrobPower(J,1)+ideal(f)))) o6 = total: 4 1 2: 3 1 3: 1 . i7 : betti basis( ((FrobPower(J,2)+ideal(f)):ideal (x,y,z))/((FrobPower(J,2)+ideal(f)))) o7 = total: 4 1 4: 3 . 5: . . 6: . . 7: . . 8: . 1 9: 1 . i8 : betti basis( ((FrobPower(J,4)+ideal(f)):ideal (x,y,z))/((FrobPower(J,4)+ideal(f)))) o8 = total: 6 2 5: 1 . 6: . . 7: . . 8: . . 9: . . 10: . . 11: . . 12: . . 13: . . 14: . . 15: . . 16: 3 . 17: . . 18: . . 19: . . 20: . . 21: . 1 22: 1 . 23: . . 24: . . 25: . . 26: . . 27: . . 28: . . 29: . 1 30: 1 . i9 : betti basis( ((FrobPower(J,3)+ideal(f)):ideal (x,y,z))/((FrobPower(J,3)+ideal(f)))) o9 = total: 6 2 5: 1 . 6: . . 7: . . 8: 3 . 9: . . 10: . . 11: . 1 12: 1 . 13: . . 14: . . 15: . 1 16: 1 . i10 : betti basis( ((FrobPower(J,5)+ideal(f)):ideal (x,y,z))/((FrobPower(J,5)+ideal(f)))) o10 = total: 6 2 5: 1 . 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: 3 . 33: . . 34: . . 35: . . 36: . . 37: . . 38: . . 39: . . 40: . . 41: . 1 42: 1 . 43: . . 44: . . 45: . . 46: . . 47: . . 48: . . 49: . . 50: . . 51: . . 52: . . 53: . . 54: . . 55: . . 56: . . 57: . 1 58: 1 . i11 :