Polytopal linear retractions

DOI10.1090/S0002-9947-01-02703-9MaRDI QIDQ2750949zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Winfried Bruns, Joseph Gubeladze

Publication date 21 October 2001

Published in Transactions of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/math/9911006

affine semigroup ring binomial ideal polytopal algebra retracts

Module categories in associative algebras (16D90) Graded rings and modules (associative rings and algebras) (16W50) Abelian categories, Grothendieck categories (18E10) Commutative semigroups (20M14) Semigroup rings, multiplicative semigroups of rings (20M25) Lattices and convex bodies in (n) dimensions (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C07) Retraction (54C15)

Abstract: We investigate graded retracts of polytopal algebras (essentially the homogeneous rings of affine cones over projective toric varieties) as polytopal analogues of vector spaces. In many cases we show that these retracts are again polytopal algebras and that codimension 1 retractions factor through retractions preserving the semigroup structure. We expect that these results hold in general. This paper is a part of the project started in our paers "Polytopal linear groups" (J. Algebra 219 (1999), 715-737) and "Polyhedral algebras, toric arrangements, and their groups" (preprint), where we have investigated the graded automorphism groups of polytopal algebras. Part of the motivation comes from the observation that there is a reasonable `polytopal' generalization of linear algebra (and, subsequently, that of algebraic

K

-theory).

Review text

The category of finite-dimensional vector spaces over a field \(k\) is a full subcategory of that so-called polytopal \(k\)-linear category \({\mathcal P}ol_k\). The objects of this category being standard graded \(k\)-algebras associated with a lattice polytope and the morphisms the homogeneous \(k\)-algebra homomorphisms. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINEThis paper is part of a project of the authors where they investigate the graded automorphism groups of polytopal algebras and, on them, they study retractions. In this sense, the authors prove several results which strongly support the following two conjectures: NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE(1) The images of retractions in \({\mathcal P}ol_k\) are polytopal algebras. NEWLINENEWLINENEWLINE(2) A codimension 1 retraction factors through either a facet projection or an affine lattice retraction of the underlying lattice polytope.

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