Characterizing Multigraded Regularity and Virtual Resolutions on Products of Projective Spaces

Abstract

We explore the relationship between multigraded Castelnuovo--Mumford regularity, truncations, Betti numbers, and virtual resolutions on a product of projective spaces $X$. After proving a uniqueness theorem for certain virtual resolutions, we show that the multigraded regularity region of a module $M$ is determined by the minimal graded free resolutions of the truncations $M_{\geq\mathbf d}$ for $\mathbf d\in\operatorname{Pic} X$. Further, by relating the minimal graded free resolutions of $M$ and $M_{\geq\mathbf d}$ we provide a new bound on multigraded regularity of $M$ in terms of its Betti numbers. Using this characterization of regularity and this bound we also compute the multigraded Castelnuovo--Mumford regularity for a wide class of complete intersections in products of projective spaces.