Propagating weights of tori along free resolutions (Q898242)

The author studies the problem of extending the action of an algebraic torus on a graded module over a polynomial ring to the minimal free resolution of the module. The article is divided into four sections. The first one provides a longer introduction into the problem and treats without much technical details a simple example. The second section collects the needed concepts and results from commutative algebra on one hand and representation theory on the other hand. The main emphasis is on introducing a category where the objects are finitely generated graded polynomial modules equipped with a torus action which is compatible with the grading and with multiplication and the morphisms are graded equivariant module homomorphisms. Furthermore, free modules in this category are studied in details and the existence of minimal resolutions is shown. The third section presents the theoretical basis for the algorithms designed in the fourth section. It studies in details the propagation of weights along a resolution. This is done first for maps which are expressed with respect to bases consisting of weight vectors. Then the general case is considered under some mild assumptions. The fourth section is by far the largest one and makes up about half of the article. It provides algorithms for four problems. The first one recovers weights for the domain of a map given those of the codomain, whereas the second one works in the opposite direction. Based on these two algorithms, a third one propagates weights given for one module in a minimal resolution along the remainder of the resolution. The fourth algorithm recovers the weights of graded components of a module given a presentation of it. Finally, computations over a subfield are considered.