Taylor and Lyubeznik resolutions via Gröbner bases

  • Authors:
  • Werner M. Seiler

  • Affiliations:
  • Lehrstuhl für Mathematik I, Universität Mannheim, 68131 Mannheim, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Symbolic Computation
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

Taylor presented an explicit resolution for arbitrary monomial ideals. Later, Lyubeznik found that a subcomplex already defines a resolution. We show that the Taylor resolution may be obtained by repeated application of the Schreyer Theorem from the theory of Gröbner bases, whereas the Lyubeznik resolution is a consequence of Buchberger's chain criterion. Finally, we relate Fröberg's contracting homotopy for the Taylor complex to normal forms with respect to our Gröbner bases and use it to derive a splitting homotopy that leads to the Lyubeznik complex.