Semigroup rings and simplicial complexes (Q1376299)

This text is a study of a minimal free resolution \({\mathcal F}\) of a ring \(T= S/I\) where \(S\) is a positive affine semigroup ring over a field \(\kappa\) and \(I\) is an ideal in \(S\) generated by monomials. The authors show that the multigraded Betti numbers of \(T\) can be computed from the relative homology of simplicial complexes called squarefree divisor complexes. The authors show that for any simplicial complex \(\pi\), there exists a simplicial complex \(\widetilde{\pi}\) homotopically equivalent to \(\pi\) that appear as a squarefree divisor complex in a positive affine semigroup ring, and they characterize those simplicial complexes of dimension at most 1 that can be realized as squarefree divisor complexes.