Subcomplexes of Certain Free Resolutions

Abstract

What are the subcomplexes of a free resolution? This question is simple to state, but the naive approach leads to a computational quagmire that is infeasible even in small cases. In this paper, we invoke the Bernstein--Gelfand--Gelfand (BGG) correspondence to address this question for free resolutions given by two well-known complexes, the Koszul and the Eagon--Northcott. This novel approach provides a complete characterization of the ranks of free modules in a subcomplex in the Koszul case and imposes numerical restrictions in the Eagon--Northcott case.

18 pages. Comments welcome!