From flag complexes to banner complexes

DOI10.1137/120894324MaRDI QIDQ2848562zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Steven Klee, Isabella Novik

Publication date 26 September 2013

Published in SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1210.1297

zbMATH Keywords

Cohen-Macaulay simplicial complex face numbers flag simplicial complex missing faces

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of commutative algebra (05E40) Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45)

Abstract: A notion of an

i

-banner simplicial complex is introduced. For various values of

i

, these complexes interpolate between the class of flag complexes and the class of all simplicial complexes. Examples of simplicial spheres of an arbitrary dimension that are

(i + 1)

-banner but not

i

-banner are constructed. It is shown that several theorems for flag complexes have appropriate

i

-banner analogues. Among them are (1) the codimension-

(i + j - 1)

skeleton of an

i

-banner homology sphere

D e l t a

is

2 (i + j)

-Cohen--Macaulay for all

0 l e q j l e q d i m D e l t a + 1 - i

, and (2) for every

i

-banner simplicial complex

D e l t a

there exists a balanced complex

G a m m a

with the same number of vertices as

D e l t a

whose face numbers of dimension

i - 1

and higher coincide with those of

D e l t a

.

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