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Combinatorial commutative algebra. (English) Zbl 1090.13001

Graduate Texts in Mathematics 227. New York, NY: Springer (ISBN 0-387-23707-0/pbk). xiv, 417 p. (2005).
The book under review constitutes a self-contained introduction to the use of combinatorial methods in commutative algebra. The intention is to complement and build on R. Stanley’s classic book “Combinatorics and commutative algebra”, 2nd ed., Prog. Math. 41 (Basel 1996; Zbl 0838.13008)]. Concrete calculations and examples are used to introduce and develop concepts. Numerous exercises provide the opportunity to work through the material and end of chapter notes comment on the history and development of the subject. The authors have provided us with a useful reference and an effective text book.
The book is divided into three parts. The first part in entitled “Monomial Ideals” and contains chapters on squarefree monomial ideals, Borel-fixed monomial ideals, three-dimensional staircases, cellular resolutions, Alexander duality and generic monomial ideals. The second part, on “Toric Algebra”, contains chapters on semigroup rings, multigraded polynomial rings, syzygies of lattice ideals, toric varieties, irreducible and injective modules, Erhart polynomials, and local cohomology. The final section highlights the use of “Determinants” and contains chapters on Plücker coordinates, matrix Schubert varieties, antidiagonal initial ideals, minors in matrix products and Hilbert schemes of points.

MSC:

13-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to commutative algebra
13-01 Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to commutative algebra
05-01 Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to combinatorics
05-02 Research exposition (monographs, survey articles) pertaining to combinatorics
05E99 Algebraic combinatorics
13F20 Polynomial rings and ideals; rings of integer-valued polynomials
13C40 Linkage, complete intersections and determinantal ideals

Citations:

Zbl 0838.13008
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