Intersecting faces of a simplicial complex via algebraic shifting

DOI10.1016/J.DISC.2015.07.014MaRDI QIDQ501030zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors S. A. Seyed Fakhari

Publication date 8 October 2015

Published in Discrete Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1202.4942

zbMATH Keywords

simplicial complexsequentially Cohen-Macaulay simplicial complex\(i\)-near-conealgebraic shiftingErdős-Ko-Rado theorem

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Extremal problems in graph theory (05C35) Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45) Cohen-Macaulay modules (13C14)

Abstract: A family $mathcalA$ of sets is {it $t$-intersecting} if the cardinality of the intersection of every pair of sets in $mathcalA$ is at least $t$, and is an {it $r$-family} if every set in $mathcalA$ has cardinality $r$. A well-known theorem of ErdH{o}s, Ko, and Rado bounds the cardinality of a $t$-intersecting $r$-family of subsets of an $n$-element set, or equivalently of $(r-1)$-dimensional faces of a simplex with $n$ vertices. As a generalization of the ErdH{o}s-Ko-Rado theorem, Borg presented a conjecture concerning the size of a $t$-intersecting $r$-family of faces of an arbitrary simplicial complex. He proved his conjecture for shifted complexes. In this paper we give a new proof for this result based on work of Woodroofe. Using algebraic shifting we verify Borg's conjecture in the case of sequentially Cohen-Macaulay $i$-near-cones for $t=i$.

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