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Irreducible decomposition of binomial ideals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2016

Thomas Kahle
Affiliation:
Faculty of Mathematics, Otto-von-Guericke Universität, Magdeburg, Germany email thomas.kahle@ovgu.de
Ezra Miller
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708, USA email ezra@math.duke.edu
Christopher O’Neill
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Texas A&M University, TX 77843, USA email coneill@math.tamu.edu
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Abstract

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Building on coprincipal mesoprimary decomposition [Kahle and Miller, Decompositions of commutative monoid congruences and binomial ideals, Algebra and Number Theory 8 (2014), 1297–1364], we combinatorially construct an irreducible decomposition of any given binomial ideal. In a parallel manner, for congruences in commutative monoids we construct decompositions that are direct combinatorial analogues of binomial irreducible decompositions, and for binomial ideals we construct decompositions into ideals that are as irreducible as possible while remaining binomial. We provide an example of a binomial ideal that is not an intersection of irreducible binomial ideals, thus answering a question of Eisenbud and Sturmfels [Binomial ideals, Duke Math. J. 84 (1996), 1–45].

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Research Article
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© The Authors 2016 

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