Splittable ideals and the resolutions of monomial ideals (Q875092)

A monomial ideal \(I\) is splittable if there exist two monomial ideals \(J\) and \(K\) such that \(I = J+K\) and the generators of \(J \cap K\) satisfy certain technical conditions. This notion was introduced by \textit{S. Eliahou} and \textit{M. Kervaire} [J. Algebra 129, No. 1, 1--25 (1990; Zbl 0701.13006)]. The main result of this paper is a recursive like formula for the graded Betti numbers of splittable edge ideals of graphs. This formula unifies all known results on the resolution of edge ideals of forests and allows the authors to obtain new results on the projective dimension and the regularity of edge ideals. The methods developed in this paper can be also used to study the graded Betti numbers of facet ideals of simplicial complexes.