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A Gr\"{o}bner Basis Approach to Combinatorial Nullstellensatz

Combinatorics 2023-04-18 v1 Commutative Algebra

Abstract

In this paper, using some conditions that arise naturally in Alon's combinatorial Nullstellensatz as well as its various extensions and generalizations, we characterize Gr\"{o}bner bases consisting of monic polynomials, which helps us to establish a Nullstellensatz from a Gr\"{o}bner basis perspective. As corollaries of this general Nullstellensatz, we establish four special Nullstellensatz, which, among others, include a common generalization of the Nullstellensatz for multisets established in K\'{o}s, R\'{o}nyai and M\'{e}sz\'{a}ros \cite{23,24} and the Nullstellensatz with multiplicity established in Ball and Serra \cite{9}, and include a punctured Nullstellensatz, generalizing several existing results in the literature. As applications of our punctured Nullstellensatz, we extend some results on hyperplane covering in \cite{9,23,24} to wider settings, and give an alternative proof of the generalized Alon-F\"{u}redi theorem established in Bishnoi, Clark, Potukuchi and Schmitt \cite{12}. Unless specified otherwise, all our results are established over an arbitrary commutative ring RR.

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@article{arxiv.2304.07701,
  title  = {A Gr\"{o}bner Basis Approach to Combinatorial Nullstellensatz},
  author = {Yang Xu and Haibin Kan and Guangyue Han},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2304.07701},
  year   = {2023}
}
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