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When are Morse resolutions polyhedral?

Louis Bu·Sara Faridi·Iresha Madduwe Hewalage·Thiago Holleben·Hasan Mahmood·Dharm Veer·Kyle Wang·Scott Wesley
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It is known that the chain complex of a simplex on $q$ vertices can be used to construct a free resolution of any ideal generated by $q$ monomials, and as a direct result, the Betti numbers always have binomial upper bounds, given by the number of faces of a simplex in each dimension. It is also known that for most monomials the resolution provided by the simplex is far from minimal. Discrete Morse theory provides an algorithm called \say{Morse matchings} by which faces of the simplex can be removed so that the chain complex on the remaining faces is still a free resolution of the same ideal. An immediate positive effect is an often considerable improvement on the bounds on Betti numbers. A caveat is the loss of the combinatorial structure of the simplex we started with: the output of the Morse matching process is a cell complex with no obvious structure besides an \say{address} for each cell. The main question in this paper is: which Morse matchings lead to Morse complexes that are polyhedral cell complexes? We prove that if a monomial ideal is minimally generated by up to four generators, then there is a maximal Morse matching of the simplex such that the resulting cell complex is a polyhedral cell complex. We then give an example of a monomial ideal minimally generated by six generators whose minimal free resolution is supported on a Morse complex and the Morse complex cannot be polyhedral no matter what Morse matching is chosen, and we go further to show that this ideal cannot have any polyhedral minimal free resolution.

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Louis Bu, Sara Faridi, Iresha Madduwe Hewalage, Thiago Holleben, Hasan Mahmood, Dharm Veer, Kyle Wang, Scott Wesley. 2025-05-13. When are Morse resolutions polyhedral?. https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.08580

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