Minimal resolutions of lattice ideals

Authors

Li, Y; Miller, E; Ordog, E

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 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.

Citation

Li, Y., E. Miller, and E. Ordog. “Minimal resolutions of lattice ideals.” Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra 229, no. 3 (March 1, 2025). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpaa.2025.107901.
Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra

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