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On the cover ideals of chordal graphs

Commutative Algebra 2020-03-03 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

The independence complex of a chordal graph is known to be shellable due to a result of Van Tuyl and Villarreal. This is equivalent to the fact that cover ideal of a chordal graph has linear quotients. We use this result to obtain recursive formulas for the Betti numbers of cover ideals of chordal graphs. Also, we give a new proof of their result which yields different shellings of the independence complex.

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@article{arxiv.1906.12144,
  title  = {On the cover ideals of chordal graphs},
  author = {Nursel Erey},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.12144},
  year   = {2020}
}