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Minimal resolutions of lattice ideals

Commutative Algebra 2024-10-10 v2 Combinatorics

Abstract

A canonical minimal free resolution of an arbitrary co-artinian lattice ideal over the polynomial ring is constructed over any field whose characteristic is 0 or any but finitely many positive primes. The differential has a closed-form combinatorial description as a sum over lattice paths in Zn\mathbb{Z}^n of weights that come from sequences of faces in simplicial complexes indexed by lattice points. Over a field of any characteristic, a non-canonical but simpler resolution is constructed by selecting choices of higher-dimensional analogues of spanning trees along lattice paths. These constructions generalize sylvan resolutions for monomial ideals by lifting them equivariantly to lattice modules.

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@article{arxiv.2208.09557,
  title  = {Minimal resolutions of lattice ideals},
  author = {Yupeng Li and Ezra Miller and Erika Ordog},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2208.09557},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

v2: 13 pages, 6 figures; new section 5 as an extended example to the construction. v1: 9 pages, no figures