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Cohen-Macauleyness of the Zero-Divisor Graph of a Boolean Poset

Combinatorics 2026-04-20 v2

Abstract

In this paper, we prove that the zero-divisor graph Γ(P)\Gamma(P) of a Boolean poset PP is both well-covered and Cohen--Macaulay. Furthermore, for a poset P=i=1nPi\mathbf{P} = \prod_{i=1}^{n} P_i (n3)(n \ge 3), where each PiP_i is a finite bounded poset satisfying Z(Pi)={0}Z(P_i) = \{0\} for all ii, and P1P2Pn,\le |P_1| \le |P_2| \le \cdots \le |P_n|, we show that the zero-divisor graph Γ(P)\Gamma(\mathbf{P}) is Cohen--Macaulay if and only if P\mathbf{P} is a Boolean lattice.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2511.22089,
  title  = {Cohen-Macauleyness of the Zero-Divisor Graph of a Boolean Poset},
  author = {P. Waghmare and V. Joshi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.22089},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

A minor error in Lemma 3.5 is fixed