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Cellular resolutions of second powers of square-free monomial ideals with divisibility relations

Commutative Algebra 2026-05-22 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Using divisibility relations between the generators of a square-free monomial ideal II, we describe divisibility relations between the generators of the second power I2I^2. We then employ discrete Morse theory to produce a cellular free resolution of I2I^2 which is minimal for specific ideals that are extremal with respect to a given divisibility relation. In particular, we provide sharp bounds on the projective dimension of I2I^2 when the generators of II satisfy at least one divisibility relation.

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@article{arxiv.2605.22280,
  title  = {Cellular resolutions of second powers of square-free monomial ideals with divisibility relations},
  author = {Susan M. Cooper and Sabine El Khoury and Sara Faridi and Susan Morey and Liana M. Sega and Sandra Spiroff},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.22280},
  year   = {2026}
}