The spectral gaps of generalized flag complexes and a geometric Hall-type theorem

DOI10.1093/IMRN/RNY115MaRDI QIDQ5015563zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alan Lew

Publication date 9 December 2021

Published in IMRN. International Mathematics Research Notices (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.00358

zbMATH Keywords

flag complexHall's marriage theoremhigher Laplacianindependence complexmatroidspectral gapvector domination number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trees (05C05) Graphs and linear algebra (matrices, eigenvalues, etc.) (05C50) Hypergraphs (05C65) Vertex subsets with special properties (dominating sets, independent sets, cliques, etc.) (05C69) Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45)

Abstract: Let $X$ be a simplicial complex on $n$ vertices without missing faces of dimension larger than $d$. Let $L_j$ denote the $j$-Laplacian acting on real $j$-cochains of $X$ and let $m{u}_j(X)$ denote its minimal eigenvalue. We study the connection between the spectral gaps $m{u}_k(X)$ for $kgeqd$ and $m{u}_{d-1}(X)$. In particular, we establish the following vanishing result: If $$, then $ilde{H}^j(X;mathbbR)=0$ for all $d-1leqjleqk$. As an application we prove a fractional extension of a Hall-type theorem of Holmsen, Mart'inez-Sandoval and Montejano for general position sets in matroids.

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