On the Reduced Gröbner Bases of Blockwise Determinantal Ideals

Abstract: Blockwise determinantal ideals are those generated by the union of all the minors of specified sizes in certain blocks of a generic matrix, and they are the natural generalization of many existing determinantal ideals like the Schubert and ladder ones. In this paper we establish several criteria to verify whether the Gr\"obner bases of blockwise determinantal ideals with respect to (anti-)diagonal term orders are minimal or reduced. In particular, for Schubert determinantal ideals, while all the elusive minors form the reduced Gr\"obner bases when the defining permutations are vexillary, in the non-vexillary case we derive an explicit formula for computing the reduced Gr\"obner basis from elusive minors which avoids all algebraic operations. The fundamental properties of being normal and strong for W-characteristic sets and characteristic pairs, which are heavily connected to the reduced Gr\"obner bases, of Schubert determinantal ideals are also proven.