An upper bound on stability of powers of matroidal ideals

Abstract: Let $R=K[x_1,\ldots,x_n]$ be a polynomial ring in $n$ variables over a field $K$ and $I$ be a matroidal ideal of degree $d$. Let $\astab(I)$ and $\dstab(I)$ be the smallest integers $l$ and $k$, for which $\Ass(I^l)$ and $\depth(R/I^k)$ stabilize, respectively. In this paper, we show that $\astab(I),\dstab(I)\leq\min{d,\ell(I)}$, where $\ell(I)$ is the analytic spread of $I$. Furthermore, by a counterexample we give a negative answer to the conjecture of Herzog and Qureshi \cite{HQ} about stability of matroidal ideals.