Sparse Nullstellensatz, Resultants, and Determinants of Complexes

Abstract

We refine and extend a result by Tuitman on the supports of a Bézout identity satisfied by a finite sequence of sparse Laurent polynomials without common zeroes in the toric variety associated to their supports. When the number of these polynomials is one more than the dimension of the ambient space, we obtain a formula for computing the sparse resultant as the determinant of a Koszul-type complex.