Determinantal Conditions for Modules of Generalized Splines

Abstract: Generalized splines on a graph

G

with edge labels in a commutative ring

R

are vertex labelings such that if two vertices share an edge in

G

, the difference between the vertex labels lies in the ideal generated by the edge label. When

R

is an integral domain, the set of all such splines is a finitely generated

R

-module

R_{G}

of rank

n

, the number of vertices of

G

. We find determinantal conditions on subsets of

R_{G}

that determine whether

R_{G}

is a free module, and if so, whether a so called "flow-up class basis" exists.

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