The Taylor resolution is almost never minimal for powers of monomial ideals, even in the square-free case. In this paper we introduce a smaller resolution for each power of any square-free monomial ideal, which depends only on the number of generators of the ideal. More precisely, for every pair of fixed integers and , we construct a simplicial complex that supports a free resolution of the power of any square-free monomial ideal with generators. The resulting resolution is significantly smaller than the Taylor resolution, and is minimal for special cases. Considering the relations on the generators of a fixed ideal allows us to further shrink these resolutions. We also introduce a class of ideals called “extremal ideals”, and show that the Betti numbers of powers of all square-free monomial ideals are bounded by Betti numbers of powers of extremal ideals. Our results lead to upper bounds on Betti numbers of powers of any square-free monomial ideal that greatly improve the binomial bounds offered by the Taylor resolution.
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Keywords: powers of ideals, simplicial complex, Betti numbers, free resolutions, monomial ideals, extremal ideals
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title = {Simplicial resolutions of powers of square-free monomial ideals},
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Cooper, Susan M.; El Khoury, Sabine; Faridi, Sara; Mayes-Tang, Sarah; Morey, Susan; Şega, Liana M.; Spiroff, Sandra. Simplicial resolutions of powers of square-free monomial ideals. Algebraic Combinatorics, Volume 7 (2024) no. 1, pp. 77-107. doi : 10.5802/alco.325. https://alco.centre-mersenne.org/articles/10.5802/alco.325/
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