Computing Minimal Injective Resolutions of Sheaves on Finite Posets

Abstract

In this paper we introduce two new methods for constructing injective resolutions of sheaves of finite-dimensional vector spaces on finite posets. Our main result is the existence and uniqueness of a minimal injective resolution of a given sheaf and an algorithm for its construction. For the constant sheaf on a simplicial complex, we give a topological interpretation of the multiplicities of indecomposable injective sheaves in the minimal injective resolution, and give asymptotically tight bounds on the complexity of computing the minimal injective resolution with our algorithm.