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Ezra Miller CV

Professor of Mathematics
Mathematics
Box 90320, Durham, NC 27708-0320
209 Physics Bldg, 120 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708
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Selected Publications


Minimal resolutions of lattice ideals

Journal Article Journal of Pure and Applied Algebra · March 1, 2025 A canonical minimal free resolution of an arbitrary co-artinian lattice ideal over the polynomial ring is constructed over any field whose characteristic is 0 or any but finitely many positive primes. The differential has a closed-form combinatorial descri ... Full text Cite

Global dimension of real-exponent polynomial rings

Journal Article Algebra and Number Theory · 2023 Full text Link to item Cite

When is a Polynomial Ideal Binomial After an Ambient Automorphism?

Journal Article Foundations of Computational Mathematics · December 1, 2019 Can an ideal I in a polynomial ring k[x] over a field be moved by a change of coordinates into a position where it is generated by binomials xA- λxb with λ∈ k, or by unital binomials (i.e., with λ= 0 or 1)? Can a variety be moved into a position where it i ... Full text Cite

Preface

Conference Springer Proceedings in Mathematics and Statistics · January 1, 2018 Cite

Andrei Zelevinsky, 1953–2013

Journal Article Advances in Mathematics · September 10, 2016 Full text Cite

Persistent homology analysis of brain artery trees

Journal Article Annals of Applied Statistics · 2016 New representations of tree-structured data objects, using ideas from topological data analysis, enable improved statistical analyses of a population of brain artery trees. A number of representations of each data tree arise from persistence diagrams that ... Open Access Link to item Cite

Fruit flies and moduli: Interactions between biology and mathematics

Journal Article Notices of the American Mathematical Society · November 1, 2015 Full text Cite

Polyhedral computational geometry for averaging metric phylogenetic trees

Journal Article Advances in Applied Mathematics · July 1, 2015 This paper investigates the computational geometry relevant to calculations of the Fréchet mean and variance for probability distributions on the phylogenetic tree space of Billera, Holmes and Vogtmann, using the theory of probability measures on spaces of ... Full text Cite

Systems of parameters and holonomicity of A-hypergeometric systems

Journal Article Pacific Journal of Mathematics · January 1, 2015 We give an elementary proof of holonomicity for A-hypergeometric systems, with no requirements on the behavior of their singularities, a result originally due to Adolphson (1994) after the regular singular case by Gelfand and Gelfand (1986). Our method yie ... Full text Cite

A geometric approach to the global attractor conjecture

Journal Article SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems · January 1, 2014 This paper introduces the class of strongly endotactic networks, a subclass of the endotactic networks introduced by Craciun, Nazarov, and Pantea. The main result states that the global attractor conjecture holds for complex-balanced systems that are stron ... Full text Cite

Tree-oriented analysis of brain artery structure

Journal Article Journal of Mathematical Imaging and Vision · January 1, 2014 Statistical analysis of magnetic resonance angiography (MRA) brain artery trees is performed using two methods for mapping brain artery trees to points in phylogenetic treespace: cortical landmark correspondence and descendant correspondence. The differenc ... Full text Cite

Affine stratifications from finite misère quotients

Journal Article Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics · February 1, 2013 Given a morphism from an affine semigroup to an arbitrary commutative monoid, it is shown that every fiber possesses an affine stratification: a partition into a finite disjoint union of translates of normal affine semigroups. The proof rests on mesoprimar ... Full text Cite

Sticky central limit theorems on open books

Journal Article The Annals of Applied Probability · 2013 Full text Open Access Cite

Decompositions of commutative monoid congruences and binomial ideals

Journal Article Algebra & Number Theory · 2012 We demonstrate how primary decomposition of commutative monoid congruences fails to capture the essence of primary decomposition in commutative rings by exhibiting a more sensitive theory of mesoprimary decomposition of congruences, complete with witnesses ... Cite

A projection argument for differential inclusions, with applications to persistence of mass-action kinetics

Journal Article SIGMA (Symmetry, Integrability, and Geometry: Methods and Applications) · 2012 Motivated by questions in mass-action kinetics, we introduce the notion of vertexical family of differential inclusions. Defined on open hypercubes, these families are characterized by particular good behavior under projection maps. The motivating exampl ... Cite

Face rings of simplicial complexes with singularities

Journal Article Mathematische Annalen · December 1, 2011 The face ring of a simplicial complex modulo m generic linear forms is shown to have finite local cohomology if and only if the link of every face of dimension m or more is nonsingular, i.e., has the homology of a wedge of spheres of the expected dimension ... Full text Cite

Theory and applications of lattice point methods for binomial ideals

Conference Combinatorial Aspects of Commutative Algebra and Algebraic Geometry: The Abel Symposium 2009 · December 1, 2011 This survey of methods surrounding lattice point methods for binomial ideals begins with a leisurely treatment of the geometric combinatorics of binomial primary decomposition. It then proceeds to three independent applications whose motivations come from ... Full text Cite

Lattice point methods for combinatorial games

Journal Article Advances in Applied Mathematics · January 1, 2011 We encode arbitrary finite impartial combinatorial games in terms of lattice points in rational convex polyhedra. Encodings provided by these lattice games can be made particularly efficient for octal games, which we generalize to squarefree games. These e ... Full text Cite

Positivity and Kleiman transversality in equivariant K-theory of homogeneous spaces

Journal Article Journal of the European Mathematical Society · January 1, 2011 We prove the conjectures of Graham-Kumar [GrKu08] and Griffeth-Ram [GrRa04] concerning the alternation of signs in the structure constants for torus-equivariant K-theory of generalized flag varieties G/P. These results are immediate consequences of an equi ... Full text Cite

Combinatorics of binomial primary decomposition

Journal Article Mathematische Zeitschrift · April 1, 2010 An explicit lattice point realization is provided for the primary components of an arbitrary binomial ideal in characteristic zero. This decomposition is derived from a characteristic-free combinatorial description of certain primary components of binomial ... Full text Cite

Binomial D-modules

Journal Article Duke Mathematical Journal · January 1, 2010 We study quotients of the Weyl algebra by left ideals whose generators consist of an arbitrary Zd-graded binomial ideal I in C[∂1∂n] along with Euler operators defined by the grading and a parameter βεCd 2 Cd. We determine the parameters β for which these ... Cite

Binomial D-modules

Journal Article Duke Mathematical Journal · 2010 Link to item Cite

Gröbner geometry of vertex decompositions and of flagged tableaux

Journal Article Journal fur die Reine und Angewandte Mathematik · May 1, 2009 We relate a classic algebro-geometric degeneration technique, dating at least to Hodge 1941 (J. London Math. Soc. 16: 245-255), to the notion of vertex decompositions of simplicial complexes. The good case is when the degeneration is reduced, and we call t ... Full text Cite

Topological Cohen-Macaulay criteria for monomial ideals

Conference COMBINATORIAL ASPECTS OF COMMUTATIVE ALGEBRA · January 1, 2009 Link to item Cite

What is... a toric variety?

Journal Article Notices of the American Mathematical Society · May 1, 2008 Cite

Multiplier ideals of sums via cellular resolutions

Journal Article Mathematical Research Letters · January 1, 2008 Fix nonzero ideal sheaves a1, . . . ., ar and b on a normal ℚ-Gorenstein complex variety X. For any positive real numbers α and β, we construct a resolution of the multiplier ideal script T((a1 + . . . + ar)αbβ) by sheaves that are direct sums of multiplie ... Full text Cite

Tableau complexes

Journal Article Israel Journal of Mathematics · January 1, 2008 Let X, Y be finite sets and T a set of functions X → Y which we will call " tableaux". We define a simplicial complex whose facets, all of the same dimension, correspond to these tableaux. Such tableau complexes have many nice properties, and are frequentl ... Full text Cite

Multiplier ideals of sums via cellular resolutions

Journal Article Mathematical Research Letters · 2008 Cite

Metric combinatorics of convex polyhedra: Cut loci and nonoverlapping unfoldings

Journal Article Discrete and Computational Geometry · January 1, 2008 Let S be the boundary of a convex polytope of dimension d+1, or more generally let S be a convex polyhedral pseudomanifold. We prove that S has a polyhedral nonoverlapping unfolding into ℝd, so the metric space S is obtained from a closed (usually nonconve ... Full text Cite

A kleiman-bertini theorem for sheaf tensor products

Journal Article Journal of Algebraic Geometry · January 1, 2008 Fix a variety X with a transitive (left) action by an algebraic group G. Let ε and ℱ be coherent sheaves on X. We prove that for elements g in a dense open subset of G, the sheaf Tor¡X- (ε, gℱ) vanishes for all i > 0. When ε and ℱ are structure sheaves of ... Full text Cite

Multiplier ideals of sums via cellular resolutions

Journal Article Mathematical Research Letters · 2008 Fix nonzero ideal sheaves a1, . . . ., ar and b on a normal ℚ-Gorenstein complex variety X. For any positive real numbers α and β, we construct a resolution of the multiplier ideal script T((a1 + . . . + ar)αbβ) by sheaves that are direct sums of multiplie ... Cite

Duality of antidiagonals and pipe dreams

Journal Article Séminaire Lotharingien de Combinatoire · 2007 Cite

Four positive formulae for type A quiver polynomials

Journal Article Inventiones Mathematicae · November 1, 2006 We give four positive formulae for the (equioriented type A) quiver polynomials of Buch and Fulton [BF99 ]. All four formulae are combinatorial, in the sense that they are expressed in terms of combinatorial objects of certain types: Zelevinsky permutation ... Full text Cite

Combinatorics of rank jumps in simplicial hypergeometric systems

Journal Article Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society · May 1, 2006 Let A be an integer d × n matrix, and assume that the convex hull conv(A) of its columns is a simplex of dimension d - 1 not containing the origin. It is known that the semigroup ring ℂ[Ndbl;A] is Cohen-Macaulay if and only if the rank of the GKZ hypergeom ... Full text Cite

Stanley's simplicial poset conjecture, after M. Masuda

Journal Article Communications in Algebra · February 1, 2006 M. Masuda recently provided the missing piece proving a conjecture of R.P. Stanley on the characterization of f-vectors for Gorenstein *simplicial posets. We propose a slight simplification of Masuda's proof. ... Full text Cite

Homological methods for hypergeometric families

Journal Article Journal of the American Mathematical Society · October 1, 2005 Full text Cite

Alternating formulas for K-theoretic quiver polynomials

Journal Article Duke Mathematical Journal · May 15, 2005 The main theorem here is the K-theoretic analogue of the cohomological "stable double component formula" for quiver polynomials in [KMS]. This K-theoretic version is still in terms of lacing diagrams, but nonminimal diagrams contribute terms of higher degr ... Full text Cite

Toric degeneration of Schubert varieties and Gelfand-Tsetlin polytopes

Journal Article Advances in Mathematics · May 1, 2005 This note constructs the flat toric degeneration of the manifold ℱℓn of flags in ℂn due to Gonciulea and Lakshmibai (Transform. Groups 1(3) (1996) 215) as an explicit GIT quotient of the Gröbner degeneration due to Knutson and Miller (Gröbner geometry of S ... Full text Cite

Algorithms for graded injective resolutions and local cohomology over semigroup rings

Journal Article Journal of Symbolic Computation · March 1, 2005 Let Q be an affine semigroup generating ℤd, and fix a finitely generated ℤd-graded module M over the semigroup algebra k[Q] for a field k. We provide an algorithm to compute a minimal ℤd-graded injective resolution of M up to any desired cohomological degr ... Full text Cite

Reciprocal domains and Cohen-Macaulay d-complexes in ℝd

Journal Article Electronic Journal of Combinatorics · January 7, 2005 We extend a reciprocity theorem of Stanley about enumeration of integer points in polyhedral cones when one exchanges strict and weak inequalities. The proof highlights the roles played by Cohen-Macaulayness and canonical modules. The extension raises the ... Cite

Gröbner geometry of Schubert polynomials

Journal Article Annals of Mathematics · January 1, 2005 Given a permutation w ∈ Sn, we consider a determinantal ideal Iw whose generators are certain minors in the generic n × n matrix (filled with independent variables). Using 'multidegrees' as simple algebraic substitutes for torus-equivariant cohomology clas ... Full text Cite

Subword complexes in Coxeter groups

Journal Article Advances in Mathematics · May 1, 2004 Let (Π, Σ) be a Coxeter system. An ordered list of elements in Σ and an element in Π determine a subword complex, as introduced in Knutson and Miller (Ann. of Math. (2) (2003), to appear). Subword complexes are demonstrated here to be homeomorphic to balls ... Full text Cite

Reciprocal domains and Cohen-Macaulay d-complexes in R^d

Journal Article Electronic Journal of Combinatorics · 2004 Cite

Mitosis recursion for coefficients of Schubert polynomials

Journal Article Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series A · January 1, 2003 Mitosis is a rule introduced by Knutson and Miller for manipulating subsets of the n × n grid. It provides an algorithm that lists the reduced pipe dreams (also known as rc-graphs) of Fomin and Kirillov for a permutation w ∈ Sn by downward induction on wea ... Full text Cite

Bass numbers of semigroup-graded local cohomology

Journal Article Pacific Journal of Mathematics · January 1, 2003 Given a module M over a ring R that has a grading by a semigroup Q, we present a spectral sequence that computes the local cohomology HIi(M) at any graded ideal I in terms of Ext modules. We use this method to obtain flniteness results for the local cohomo ... Full text Cite

Cohen-Macaulay quotients of normal semioroup rings via irreducible resolutions

Journal Article Mathematical Research Letters · January 1, 2002 For a radical monomial ideal I in a normal semigroup ring κ[Q], there is a unique minimal irreducible resolution 0 → κ[Q]/I → W̄0 → W̄1 ... by modules W̄i of the form ⊕jk[Fij], where the Fij are (not necessarily distinct) faces of Q. That is, W̄i is a direct s ... Full text Cite

Planar graphs as minimal resolutions of trivariate monomial ideals

Journal Article Documenta Mathematica · January 1, 2002 We introduce the notion of rigid embedding in a grid surface, a new kind of plane drawing for simple triconnected planar graphs. Rigid embeddings provide methods to (1) find well-structured (cellular, here) minimal free resolutions for arbitrary monomial i ... Cite

Graded greenlees-may duality and the cech hull

Chapter · January 1, 2001 The duality theorem of Greenlees and May relating local cohomology with support on an ideal I and the left derived functors of J-adic completion [GM92) holds for rather general ideals in commutative rings. Here, simple formulas are provided for both local ... Cite

Eight lectures on monomial ideals

Journal Article Queen's papers in pure and applied mathematics · 2001 Cite

The Alexander duality functors and local duality with monomial support

Journal Article Journal of Algebra · September 1, 2000 Alexander duality is made into a functor which extends the notion for monomial ideals to any finitely generated Nn-graded module. The functors associated with Alexander duality provide a duality on the level of free and injective resolutions, and numerous ... Full text Cite

Generic and cogeneric monomial ideals

Journal Article Journal of Symbolic Computation · January 1, 2000 Monomial ideals which are generic with respect to either their generators or irreducible components have minimal free resolutions encoded by simplicial complexes. There are numerous equivalent ways to say that a monomial ideal is generic or cogeneric. For ... Full text Cite

Icosahedra constructed from congruent triangles

Journal Article Discrete and Computational Geometry · January 1, 2000 It is possible to construct a figure in three dimensions which is combinatorially equivalent to a regular icosahedron, and whose faces are all congruent but not equilateral. Such icosamonohedra can be convex or nonconvex, and can be deformed continuously. ... Full text Cite

Monomial ideals and planar graphs

Other Applied Algebra, Algebraic Algorithms and Error-Correcting Codes · 1998 Cite

Multiplicities of ideals in Noetherian rings

Journal Article Beiträge zur Algebra und Geometrie · 1998 Cite

Irreducible decomposition of binomial ideals

Journal Article Compositio Mathematica Building on coprincipal mesoprimary decomposition [Kahle and Miller, 2014], we combinatorially construct an irreducible decomposition of any given binomial ideal. In a parallel manner, for congruences in commutative monoids we construct decompositions tha ... Link to item Cite