The geometry and combinatorics of cographic toric face rings (Q393943)

In this paper the authors introduce the so-called ``cographic (toric face) ring'', \(R(\Gamma )\) associated to a graph \(\Gamma\), as the ``toric face ring associated to the fan that is defined by the cographic arrangement \({\mathcal C}_{\Gamma}^\perp\)'', where \({\mathcal C}_{\Gamma}^\perp\) ``is a (certain) arrangement of hyperplanes in the real vector space \(H_R\) associated to the homology group \(H_{\mathbb Z}:=H_1(\Gamma ,\mathbb Z)\) ''. They prove properties of \(R(\Gamma )\): it has pure dimension \(b_1=\text{dim}_{\mathbb R}H_1(\Gamma , \mathbb R)\), is Gorenstein, seminormal, semi log canonical and one computes invariants of \(R(\Gamma )\) ``in terms of the combinatorics of \(\Gamma\)''. Conversely, they show ``that \(R(\Gamma )\) determines \(\Gamma\) up to three-edge connectivization''. It is interesting to note that the cographic rings ``appear in the study of compactified Jacobians of nodal curves''.