The strong Lefschetz property for some monomial almost complete intersections

Abstract Motivated by the foundational result that a monomial complete intersection has the strong Lefschetz property (SLP) in characteristic zero, it is natural to ask when monomial almost complete intersections have the SLP. In this paper, using the Hilbert series as a central tool, we investigate the strong Lefschetz property for certain monomial almost complete intersections: those with the non-pure-power generator having support in two variables, and those with symmetric Hilbert series. In the former case, we give a complete classification for when the SLP holds, and in the latter case, we prove that such algebras always have the SLP.