Pure \(\mathcal{O}\)-sequences arising from \(2\)-dimensional PS ear-decomposable simplicial complexes (Q783074)

Summary: We show that the \(h\)-vector of a \(2\)-dimensional PS ear-decomposable simplicial complex is a pure \(\mathcal{O}\)-sequence. This provides a strengthening of Stanley's conjecture for matroid \(h\)-vectors in rank \(3\). Our approach modifies the approach of combinatorial shifting for arbitrary simplicial complexes to the setting of \(2\)-dimensional PS ear-decomposable complexes, which allows us to greedily construct pure multicomplex corresponding to each PS ear-decomposable complex.