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Chorded complexes and a necessary condition for a monomial ideal to have a linear resolution

Commutative Algebra 2013-06-13 v4 Combinatorics

Abstract

In this paper we extend one direction of Fr\"oberg's theorem on a combinatorial classification of quadratic monomial ideals with linear resolutions. We do this by generalizing the notion of a chordal graph to higher dimensions with the introduction of d-chorded and orientably-d-cycle-complete simplicial complexes. We show that a certain class of simplicial complexes, the d-dimensional trees, correspond to ideals having linear resolutions over fields of characteristic 2 and also give a necessary combinatorial condition for a monomial ideal to be componentwise linear over all fields.

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@article{arxiv.1209.5089,
  title  = {Chorded complexes and a necessary condition for a monomial ideal to have a linear resolution},
  author = {Emma Connon and Sara Faridi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1209.5089},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

Revised to appear in Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A

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