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On the Mobius function of a lower Eulerian Cohen-Macaulay poset

Combinatorics 2011-07-06 v2

Abstract

A certain inequality is shown to hold for the values of the Mobius function of the poset obtained by attaching a maximum element to a lower Eulerian Cohen-Macaulay poset. In two important special cases, this inequality provides partial results supporting Stanley's nonnegativity conjecture for the toric h-vector of a lower Eulerian Cohen-Macaulay meet-semilattice and Adin's nonnegativity conjecture for the cubical h-vector of a Cohen-Macaulay cubical complex.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1105.3148,
  title  = {On the Mobius function of a lower Eulerian Cohen-Macaulay poset},
  author = {Christos A. Athanasiadis},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1105.3148},
  year   = {2011}
}

Comments

Final version; comments by the referees incorporated

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