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Divisors on graphs, binomial and monomial ideals, and cellular resolutions. (English) Zbl 1336.05060
Summary: We study various binomial and monomial ideals arising in the theory of divisors, orientations, and matroids on graphs. We use ideas from potential theory on graphs and from the theory of Delaunay decompositions for lattices to describe their minimal polyhedral cellular free resolutions. We show that the resolutions of all these ideals are closely related and that their $$\mathbb Z$$-graded Betti tables coincide. As corollaries, we give conceptual proofs of conjectures and questions posed by A. Postnikov and B. Shapiro [Trans. Am. Math. Soc. 356, No. 8, 3109–3142 (2004; Zbl 1043.05038)], M. Manjunath and B. Sturmfels [J. Algebr. Comb. 37, No. 4, 737–756 (2013; Zbl 1272.13017)], and by D. Perkinson et al. [Contemporary Mathematics 605. Centre de Recherches Mathématiques Proceedings, 211–256 (2013; Zbl 1320.05060)]. Various other results related to the theory of chip-firing games on graphs also follow from our general techniques and results.

##### MSC:
 05C25 Graphs and abstract algebra (groups, rings, fields, etc.) 05B35 Combinatorial aspects of matroids and geometric lattices
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