On a conjecture by Kalai

DOI10.1007/S11856-014-1115-YMaRDI QIDQ480815zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Giulio Caviglia, Alexandru Constantinescu, Matteo Varbaro

Publication date 11 December 2014

Published in Israel Journal of Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1212.3726

zbMATH Keywords

balanced simplicial complexCohen-Macaulay propertyflag complexHilbert functionregular sequence

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15) Vertex subsets with special properties (dominating sets, independent sets, cliques, etc.) (05C69) Deformations and infinitesimal methods in commutative ring theory (13D10) Polyhedral manifolds (52B70)

Abstract: We show that monomial ideals generated in degree two satisfy a conjecture by Eisenbud, Green and Harris. In particular we give a partial answer to a conjecture of Kalai by proving that $h$-vectors of flag Cohen-Macaulay simplicial complexes are $h$-vectors of Cohen-Macaulay balanced simplicial complexes.

Review text

Eisenbud, Greene and Harris [\textit{D. Eisenbud} et al., Astérisque 218, 187--202 (1993; Zbl 0819.14001)] conjectured that for every homogeneous ideal \(I\) in a polynomial ring that contains a regular sequence of degrees \(d_1\leq \cdots \leq d_r\), there is a homogeneous ideal \(J\) with the same Hilbert function as \(I\) and containing the monomials \(x_1^{d_1}, \dots , x_r^{d_r}\). The main result of this paper is the proof of this conjecture for monomial ideals generated in degree two. As a consequence, for every flag Cohen-Macaulay simplicial complex there is a Cohen-Macaulay balanced simplicial complex with the same face numbers. This consequence is the special case of a conjecture made by Kalai (unpublished) and by \textit{J. Eckhoff} [Isr. J. Math. 62, No. 2--3, 283--301 (1988; Zbl 0653.52003)], making the same statement also for simplicial complexes that do not need to have the Cohen-Macaulay property. The Kalai-Eckhoff conjecture was shown by \textit{A. Frohmader} [Isr. J. Math. 164, 153--164 (2008; Zbl 1246.05115)].

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