Balanced complexes and complexes without large missing faces

DOI10.1007/S11512-009-0119-ZMaRDI QIDQ691157zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Michael Goff, Steven Klee, Isabella Novik

Publication date 29 November 2012

Published in Arkiv för Matematik (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0907.1669

zbMATH Keywords

Cohen-Macaulay complexesflag complexesSimplicial complexes

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45) Combinatorial properties of polytopes and polyhedra (number of faces, shortest paths, etc.) (52B05)

Abstract: The face numbers of simplicial complexes without missing faces of dimension larger than $i$ are studied. It is shown that among all such $(d-1)$-dimensional complexes with non-vanishing top homology, a certain polytopal sphere has the componentwise minimal $f$-vector; and moreover, among all such 2-Cohen--Macaulay (2-CM) complexes, the same sphere has the componentwise minimal $h$-vector. It is also verified that the $l$-skeleton of a flag $(d-1)$-dimensional 2-CM complex is $2(d-l)$-CM while the $l$-skeleton of a flag PL $(d-1)$-sphere is $2(d-l)$-homotopy CM. In addition, tight lower bounds on the face numbers of 2-CM balanced complexes in terms of their dimension and the number of vertices are established.

Review text

This paper is about counting the faces of simplicial complexes. Two kinds of complexes are examined: complexes without missing faces, and those whose missing faces are only \(1\)-dimensional (flag complexes). The authors give lower bounds for complexes with non-vanishing top homology and no missing faces. The other results need additional conditions on the link of faces (Cohen-Macaulay complexes). Thus ``the \(l\)-skeleton of a flag \((d-1)\)-dimensional \(2\)-CM complex is \(2(d-l)\)-CM, while the \(l\)-skeleton of a flag piecewise linear \((d-1)\)-sphere is \(2(d-l)\)-homotopy CM. In addition, tight lower bounds on the face numbers of \(2\)-CM balanced complexes in terms of their dimension and the number of vertices are established.

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