Computations with Frobenius Powers

It is an open question whether tight closure commutes with localization in quotients of a polynomial ring in finitely many variables over a field. Katzman [K] showed that tight closure of ideals in these rings commutes with localization at one element if for all ideals I and J in a polynomial ring there is a linear upper bound in q on the degree in the least variable of reduced Gröbner bases in reverse lexicographic ordering of the ideals of the form J + I . Katzman conjectured that this property would always be satisfied. In this paper we prove several cases of Katzman’s conjecture. We also provide an experimental analysis (with proofs) of asymptotic properties of Gröbner bases connected with Katzman’s conjectures.