Gluing And Splitting of Homogeneous Toric Ideals

Abstract

We show that any two homogeneous affine semigroups can be glued by embedding them suitably in a higher dimensional space. As a consequence, we show that the sum of their homogeneous toric ideals is again a homogeneous toric ideal, and that the minimal graded free resolution of the associated semigroup ring is the tensor product of the minimal resolutions of the two smaller parts. We apply our results to toric ideals associated to graphs to show how two of them can be a splitting of a toric ideal associated to a graph or an hypergraph.