Two unfortunate properties of pure f-vectors

DOI10.1090/S0002-9939-2014-12338-0MaRDI QIDQ5496432zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Adrián Pastine, Fabrizio Zanello

Publication date 2 February 2015

Published in Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1211.3708

zbMATH Keywords

Cohen-Macaulay complexinterval propertypure \(f\)-vectorpure \(O\)-sequencepure simplicial complexSteiner systemunimodality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Triple systems (05B07) Combinatorial aspects of commutative algebra (05E40) Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45) Commutative rings defined by monomial ideals; Stanley-Reisner face rings; simplicial complexes (13F55) Special types (Cohen-Macaulay, Gorenstein, Buchsbaum, etc.) (13H10)

Abstract: The set of f-vectors of pure simplicial complexes is an important but little understood object in combinatorics and combinatorial commutative algebra. Unfortunately, its explicit characterization appears to be a virtually intractable problem, and its structure very irregular and complicated. The purpose of this note, where we combine a few different algebraic and combinatorial techniques, is to lend some further evidence to this fact. We first show that pure (in fact, Cohen-Macaulay) f-vectors can be nonunimodal with arbitrarily many peaks, thus improving the corresponding results known for level Hilbert functions and pure O-sequences. We provide both an algebraic and a combinatorial argument for this result. Then, answering negatively a question of the second author and collaborators posed in the recent AMS Memoir on pure O-sequences, we show that the Interval Property fails for the set of pure f-vectors, even in dimension 2.

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