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Feb 21, 2013 at 3:46 vote accept ssquidd
Feb 20, 2013 at 8:29 comment added Thomas Kahle Yes it is this product. The reason is also in the Eisenbud Sturmfels paper. In their terminology you are asking: How many saturations does the character defined by your Laurent lattice ideal have. The answer is: The order of the finite group $\text{sat}(L)/L$ and the Smith normal form computes a canonical embedding of L into $ZZ^d$ from which you extract it.
Feb 19, 2013 at 17:00 comment added ssquidd Thank you for your answer! I'm reading your paper right now. About the last paragraph, I know I can find the parameterization (and hence dimension) from Smith normal form easily. But how can I find the number of component? First since I only want nonzero solutions, I can turn each binomial equation into the form "Laurent monomial = constant". With this, let $A$ be the integer matrix made from the exponents. After turning it into Smith Normal form i.e. $PAQ$ is diagonal, is the absolute value of the product of the nonzero entries on the diagonal the number of components?
Feb 19, 2013 at 7:37 history answered Thomas Kahle CC BY-SA 3.0