Splittings of toric ideals

Abstract: Let

I s u b s e t e q R = m a t h b b K [x_{1}, l d o t s, x_{n}]

be a toric ideal, i.e., a binomial prime ideal. We investigate when the ideal

I

can be "split" into the sum of two smaller toric ideals. For a general toric ideal

I

, we give a sufficient condition for this splitting in terms of the integer matrix that defines

I

. When

I = I_{G}

is the toric ideal of a finite simple graph

G

, we give additional splittings of

I_{G}

related to subgraphs of

G

. When there exists a splitting

I = I_{1} + I_{2}

of the toric ideal, we show that in some cases we can describe the (multi-)graded Betti numbers of

I

in terms of the (multi-)graded Betti numbers of

I_{1}

and

I_{2}

.

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