Homological freeness criterion for operadic modules and application to Cohen-Macalayness of posets
Paul Laubie
TL;DR
This work extends the homological freeness criterion to Koszul operads by linking freeness to diagonal-concentrated homology of chained (co)bar constructions, enabling explicit identification of generators for free modules. The authors then apply the criterion to decorated partition posets associated with several operads, proving Cohen–Macaulayness and computing poset homology in terms of species like $\mathrm{CycLie}$ and $\mathrm{Mag}$. Key results include freeness and decomposition statements for $\mathrm{PreLie}$, $\mathrm{Lie_2}$, and $\mathrm{PostLie}$-related structures, and concrete Cohen–Macaulay conclusions for posets $\Pi^{\mathrm{Perm}}_+$, $^\mathrm{Com_2}\Pi^+$, $\Pi^{\mathrm{Com_2}}_+$, and $\Pi^{\mathrm{ComTriAss}}_+$. The framework answers open questions in OpPOS and provides a versatile toolkit for studying homological properties of decorated operadic posets, with potential extensions to other operads like $\mathrm{Dup}$ and $\mathrm{TriAss}$.
Abstract
We show a variation of the usual homological freeness criterion for operadic modules over a Koszul operad. We then apply this result to decorated partition posets for some operads, showing that their augmentation is Cohen-Macaulay and computing its homology. This work answers several open questions asked by Bérénice Delcroix-Oger and Clément Dupont in a recent article.
