Graded Betti numbers of balanced simplicial complexes (Q2667223)

Simplicial complexes have been a topic of active study for a number of years, along with the study of their associated Stanley-Reisner and Cohen-Macaulay rings. One main result of this paper is to use Hochster's formula to prove an upper bound for the invariant known as the graded Betti number of Stanley-Reisner rings of balanced simplicial complex. In the Cohen-Macaulay setting, the authors also provide two different upper bounds. The first bound is for the graded Betti numbers of ideals with a high concentration of generators in degree 2. As it turns out, the bounds apply to the well-known Stanley-Reisner rings of Cohen- Macaulay complexes. The authors then employ the theory of lex-plus-squares ideals to provide a bound for the Betti numbers of ideals containing many generators in degree 2, including the squares of the variables. Using a result by Fogelsanger, the authors derive upper bounds for the number of linear syzygies for Stanley-Reisner rings of balanced normal pseudomanifolds. Lastly, they explicitly compute the graded Betti numbers of cross-polytopal stacked spheres, and show that they only depend on the dimension and the number of vertices as opposed to only depending on the combinatorial type.