Shellings and sheddings induced by collapses

DOI10.1137/19M1290826zbMATH Open1473.05332MaRDI QIDQ4959656FDOQ4959656

Authors: Thomas Magnard, Michael Skotnica, Martin Tancer 

Publication date: 17 September 2021

Published in: SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We say that a pure simplicial complex $mathbfK$ of dimension $d$ satisfies the removal-collapsibility condition if $mathbfK$ is either empty or $mathbfK$ becomes collapsible after removing $$ facets, where $$ denotes the $d$th reduced Betti number. In this paper, we show that if the link of each face of a pure simplicial complex $mathbfK$ (including the link of the empty face which is the whole $mathbfK$) satisfy the removal-collapsibility condition, then the second barycentric subdivision of $mathbfK$ is vertex decomposable and in particular shellable. This is a higher dimensional generalization of a result of Hachimori, who proved that that if the link of each vertex of a pure 2-dimensional simplicial complex $mathbfK$ is connected, and $mathbfK$ becomes simplicially collapsible after removing $ildechi(mathbfK)$ facets, where $ildechi(mathbfK)$ denotes the reduced Euler characteristic, then the second barycentric subdivision of $mathbfK$ is shellable. For the proof, we introduce a new variant of decomposability of a simplicial complex, stronger than vertex decomposability, which we call star decomposability. This notion may be of independent interest.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1909.13850

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zbMATH Keywords

simplicial complexesshellabilitycollapsibilityvertex-decomposability

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Special polytopes (linear programming, centrally symmetric, etc.) (52B12) Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45) Arrangements of points, flats, hyperplanes (aspects of discrete geometry) (52C35) Shellability for polytopes and polyhedra (52B22)

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