Graded Linearity of Stanley–Reisner Ring of Broken Circuit Complexes

This paper introduces two new notions of graded linear resolution and graded linear quotients, which generalize the concepts of linear resolution property and linear quotient for modules over the polynomial ring A=kx1,…,xn. Besides, we compare graded linearity with componentwise linearity in general. For modules minimally generated by a regular sequence in a maximal ideal of A, we show that graded linear quotients imply graded linear resolution property for the colon ideals. On the other hand, we provide specific characterizations of graded linear resolution property for the Stanley–Reisner ring of broken circuit complexes and generalize the results of Van Le and Römer, related to the decomposition of matroids into the direct sum of uniform matroids. Specifically, we show that the matroid can be stratified such that each stratum has a decomposition into uniform matroids. We also present analogs of our results for the Orlik–Terao ideal of hyperplane arrangements which are translations of the corresponding results on matroids.