The most fundamental complexes of free modules over a commutative ring are the Koszul complex, which is constructed from a vector (i.e., a 1-tensor), and the Eagon-Northcott and Buchsbaum-Rim complexes, which are constructed from a matrix (i.e., a 2-tensor). The subject of this paper is a multilinear analogue of these complexes, which we construct from an arbitrary higher tensor. Our construction provides detailed new examples of minimal free resolutions, as well as a unifying view on a wide variety...

Using syzygies computed via Gröbner bases techniques, we present algorithms for testing some homological properties for submodules of the free module $A^m$, where A = R[x₁,...,xₙ] and R is a Noetherian commutative ring. We will test if a given submodule M of $A^m$ is flat. We will also check if M is locally free of constant dimension. Moreover, we present an algorithm that computes the rank of a flat submodule M of $A^m$ and also an algorithm that computes the projective dimension of an arbitrary submodule...

Let $A=K[x_1,\cdots ,x_m]$ be a polynomial ring in $m$ variables and let $\mathbf{d}=(d_0\<\cdots \<d_m)$ be a strictly increasing sequence of $m+1$ integers. Boij and Söderberg conjectured the existence of graded $A$-modules $M$ of finite length having pure free resolution of type $\mathbf{d}$ in the sense that for $i=0,\cdots ,m$ the $i$-th syzygy module of $M$ has generators only in degree $d_i$.This paper provides a construction, in characteristic zero, of modules with this property that are also $GL\left(m\right)$-equivariant. Moreover, the construction works over rings of the form $A{\otimes }_{K}B$ where $A$ is a polynomial...

We consider the Hilbert scheme $H(d,g)$ of space curves $C$ with homogeneous ideal $I\left(C\right):=H_{*}^0\left({ℐ}_C\right)$ and Rao module $M:=H_{*}^1\left({ℐ}_C\right)$. By taking suitable generizations (deformations to a more general curve) $C^{\prime }$ of $C$, we simplify the minimal free resolution of $I\left(C\right)$ by e.g making consecutive free summands (ghost-terms) disappear in a free resolution of $I\left(C^{\prime }\right)$. Using this for Buchsbaum curves of diameter one ($M_v\ne 0$ for only one $v$), we establish a one-to-one correspondence between the set $𝒮$ of irreducible components of $H(d,g)$ that contain $\left(C\right)$ and a set of minimal...

This paper studies space curves $C$ of degree $d$ and arithmetic genus $g$, with homogeneous ideal $I$ and Rao module $M={\mathrm{H}}_{*}^1\left(\tilde{I}\right)$, whose main results deal with curves which satisfy ${}_0{\mathrm{Ext}}_R^2(M,M)=0$ (e.g. of diameter, $\mathrm{diam}M\le 2$). For such curves we find necessary and sufficient conditions for unobstructedness, and we compute the dimension of the Hilbert scheme, $\mathrm{H}(d,g)$, at $\left(C\right)$ under the sufficient conditions. In the diameter one case, the necessary and sufficient conditions coincide, and the unobstructedness of $C$ turns out to be equivalent to the...

For each squarefree monomial ideal $I\subset S=k[x_1,...,x_n]$, we associate a simple finite graph $G_I$ by using the first linear syzygies of $I$. The nodes of $G_I$ are the generators of $I$, and two vertices $u_i$ and $u_j$ are adjacent if there exist variables $x,y$ such that $x{u}_i=y{u}_j$. In the cases, where $G_I$ is a cycle or a tree, we show that $I$ has a linear resolution if and only if $I$ has linear quotients and if and only if $I$ is variable-decomposable. In addition, with the same assumption on $G_I$, we characterize all squarefree monomial ideals with a...