Shellability and the strong gcd-condition

zbMATH Open1167.55007arXiv0808.1813MaRDI QIDQ1010948FDOQ1010948

Authors: Alexander Berglund 

Publication date: 7 April 2009

Published in: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Shellability is a well-known combinatorial criterion for verifying that a simplicial complex is Cohen-Macaulay. Another notion familiar to commutative algebraists, but which has not received as much attention from combinatorialists as the Cohen-Macaulay property, is the notion of a Golod ring. Recently, a criterion on simplicial complexes reminiscent of shellability, called the strong gcd-condition, was shown to imply Golodness of the associated Stanley-Reisner ring. The two algebraic notions were tied together by Herzog, Reiner and Welker who showed that if the Alexander dual of a complex is sequentially Cohen-Macaulay then the complex itself is Golod. In this paper, we present a combinatorial companion of this result, namely that if the Alexander dual of a complex is (non-pure) shellable then the complex itself satisfies the strong gcd-condition. Moreover, we show that all implications just mentioned are strict in general but that they are equivalences for flag complexes.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/0808.1813

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zbMATH Keywords

simplicial complexCohen-MacaulayshellableAlexander dualGolodface (Stanley-Reisner) ringstrong GCD condition

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Simplicial sets and complexes in algebraic topology (55U10) Commutative rings defined by monomial ideals; Stanley-Reisner face rings; simplicial complexes (13F55) PL-topology (57Q99)

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• Free resolution of powers of monomial ideals and Golod rings
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• On vertex decomposable simplicial complexes and their Alexander duals
• Constructible Ideals

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