Decompositions of augmented Bergman complexes

DOI10.37236/11192zbMATH Open1506.05224arXiv2204.05914OpenAlexW4316037972MaRDI QIDQ2111778FDOQ2111778

Authors: R. Amzi Jeffs 

Publication date: 17 January 2023

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

Abstract: We study the augmented Bergman complex of a closure operator on a finite set, which interpolates between the order complex of proper flats and the independence complex of the operator. In 2020, Braden, Huh, Matherne, Proudfoot, and Wang showed that augmented Bergman complexes of matroids are always gallery-connected, and recently Bullock, Kelley, Reiner, Ren, Shemy, Shen, Sun, Tao, and Zhang strengthened "gallery-connected" to "shellable" by providing two classes of shelling orders: "flag-to-basis" shellings and "basis-to-flag" shellings. We show that augmented Bergman complexes of matroids are vertex decomposable, a stronger property than shellable. We also prove that the augmented Bergman complex of any closure operator is shellable if and only if lattice of flats (that is, its non-augmented Bergman complex) is shellable. As a consequence, an augmented Bergman complex is shellable if and only if it admits a flag-to-basis shelling. Perhaps surprisingly, the same does not hold for basis-to-flag shellings: we describe a closure operator whose augmented Bergman complex is shellable, but has no shelling order with bases appearing first.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.05914

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zbMATH Keywords

independence complexaugmented Bergman complex of a matroid

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Combinatorial aspects of matroids and geometric lattices (05B35) Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45) Combinatorics of partially ordered sets (06A07) Shellability for polytopes and polyhedra (52B22)

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