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Minimal and cellular free resolutions over polynomial OI-algebras

Nathan Fieldsteel·Uwe Nagel
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Minimal free resolutions of graded modules over a noetherian polynomial ring have been attractive objects of interest for more than a hundred years. We introduce and study two natural extensions in the setting of graded modules over a polynomial OI-algebra, namely minimal and width-wise minimal free resolutions. A minimal free resolution of an OI-module can be characterized by the fact that the free module in every fixed homological degree, say $i$, has minimal rank among all free resolutions of the module. We show that any finitely generated graded module over a noetherian polynomial OI-algebra admits a graded minimal free resolution, and that it is unique. A width-wise minimal free resolution is a free resolution that provides a minimal free resolution of a module in every width. Such a resolution is necessarily minimal. Its existence is not guaranteed. However, we show that certain monomial OI-ideals do admit width-wise minimal free or, more generally, width-wise minimal flat resolutions. These ideals include families of well-known monomial ideals such as Ferrers ideals and squarefree strongly stable ideals. The arguments rely on the theory of cellular resolutions.

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Nathan Fieldsteel, Uwe Nagel. 2021-05-18. Minimal and cellular free resolutions over polynomial OI-algebras. https://arxiv.org/abs/2105.08603

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