Given a local Cohen-Macaulay ring (R,m), we study the interplay between the integral closedness – or even the normality – of an m-primary R-ideal I and conditions on the Hilbert coefficients of I . We relate these properties to the depth of the associated graded ring of I .

Let G be a simple undirected graph on n vertices, and let I(G) ⊆ R = k[x 1 ,. .. , x n ] denote its associated edge ideal. We show that all chordal graphs G are sequentially Cohen-Macaulay; our proof depends upon showing that the Alexander dual of I(G) is componentwise linear. Our result complements Faridi's theorem that the facet ideal of a simplicial tree is sequentially Cohen-Macaulay and im...

In this paper, we characterize the shellable complete $t$-partite graphs. We also show for these types of graphs the concepts vertex decomposable, shellable and sequentially Cohen-Macaulay are equivalent. Furthermore, we give a combinatorial condition for the Cohen-Macaulay complete $t$-partite graphs.

To every directed graph G one can associate a complex (G) consisting of directed subforests. This construction, suggested to us by R. Stanley, is especially important in the case of a complete double directed graph Gn, where it leads to studying some interesting representations of the symmetric group and corresponds (via Stanley-Reisner correspondence) to an interesting quotient ring. Our main ...

The main theorem of this paper complements the tame-wild dichotomy for commutative Noetherian rings, obtained by Klingler and Levy [14]–[16]. They gave a complete classification of all finitely generated modules over Dedekind-like rings (cf. Definition 1.1) and showed that, over any ring that is not a homomorphic image of a Dedekind-like ring, the category of finite-length modules has wild repr...

We characterize unmixed and Cohen-Macaulay edge-weighted edge ideals of very well-covered graphs. also provide examples oriented graphs that have non-Cohen-Macaulay vertex-weighted ideals, while the ideal their underlying graph is Cohen-Macaulay. This disproves a conjecture posed by Pitones, Reyes, Toledo.

Let G be a simple undirected graph on n vertices, and let I(G) ⊆ R = k[x 1 ,. .. , x n ] denote its associated edge ideal. We show that all chordal graphs G are sequentially Cohen-Macaulay; our proof depends upon showing that the Alexander dual of I(G) is componentwise linear. Our result complements Faridi's theorem that the facet ideal of a simplicial tree is sequentially Cohen-Macaulay and He...

We study properties of a poset generating a Cohen-Macaulay algebra with straightening laws (ASL for short). We show that if a poset P generates a Cohen-Macaulay ASL, then P is pure and, if P is moreover Buchsbaum, then P is Cohen-Macaulay. Some results concerning a Rees algebra of an ASL defined by a straightening closed ideal are also established. And it is shown that if P is a Cohen-Macaulay ...