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Minimal Free Resolutions of the $G$-parking Function Ideal and the Toppling Ideal

Madhusudan Manjunath·Frank-Olaf Schreyer·John Wilmes
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The $G$-parking function ideal $M_G$ of a directed multigraph $G$ is a monomial ideal which encodes some of the combinatorial information of $G$. It is an initial ideal of the toppling ideal $I_G$, a lattice ideal intimately related to the chip-firing game on a graph. Both ideals were first studied by Cori, Rossin, and Salvy. A minimal free resolution for $M_G$ was given by Postnikov and Shaprio in the case when $G$ is saturated, i.\,e., whenever there is at least one edge $(u,v)$ for every ordered pair of distinct vertices $u$ and $v$. They also raised the problem of an explicit description of the minimal free resolution in the general case. In this paper, we give a minimal free resolution of $M_G$ for any undirected multigraph $G$, as well as for a family of related ideals including the toppling ideal $I_G$. This settles a conjecture of Manjunath and Sturmfels, as well as a conjecture of Perkinson and Wilmes.

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Madhusudan Manjunath, Frank-Olaf Schreyer, John Wilmes. 2012-12-24. Minimal Free Resolutions of the $G$-parking Function Ideal and the Toppling Ideal. https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.7569

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