Simplicial ideals, 2-linear ideals and arithmetical rank

In the first part of this paper we study scrollers and linearly joined varieties. A particular class of varieties, of important interest in classical Geometry are Cohen--Macaulay varieties of minimal degree. They appear naturally studying the fiber cone of of a codimension two toric ideals. Let $I\subset S$ be an ideal defining a linearly joined arrangement of varieties: - We compute the depth, and the cohomological dimension. is the connectedness dimension. - We characterize sets of generators of $I$, and give an effective algorithm to find equations, as an application we compute arithmetical rank. in the case if $I$ defines a union of linear spaces, (ara =projective dimension), in particular this applies to any square free monomial ideal having a $2-$ linear resolution. - In the case where $V$ is a union of linear spaces, the ideal $I$, can be characterized by a tableau, which is an extension of a Ferrer (or Young) tableau. - We introduce a new class of ideals called simplicial ideals, ideals defining linearly-joined varieties are a particular case of simplicial ideals.