Dynamical systems on chain complexes and canonical minimal resolutions

arXiv1909.08577MaRDI QIDQ6325569FDOQ6325569

Publication date: 18 September 2019

Abstract: We introduce notions of vector field and its (discrete time) flow on a chain complex. The resulting dynamical systems theory provides a set of tools with a broad range of applicability that allow, among others, to replace in a canonical way a chain complex with a "smaller" one of the same homotopy type. As applications we construct in an explicit, canonical, and symmetry-preserving fashion a minimal free resolution for every toric ring and every monomial ideal. Our constructions work in all characteristics and over any base field. A key subtle new point is that in certain finitely many positive characteristics (which depend on the object that is being resolved) a transcendental extension of the base field is produced before a resolution is obtained, while in all other characteristics the base field is kept unchanged. In the monomial case we show that such a transcendental base field extension cannot in general be avoided, and we conjecture that the same holds in the toric case.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Toric varieties, Newton polyhedra, Okounkov bodies (14M25) Combinatorial aspects of commutative algebra (05E40) Syzygies, resolutions, complexes and commutative rings (13D02) Chain complexes (category-theoretic aspects), dg categories (18G35) Chain complexes in algebraic topology (55U15)

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