Let G be a simple graph on d vertices. We define a monomial ideal K in the Stanley-Reisner ring A of the order complex of the Boolean algebra on d atoms. The monomials in K are in one-to-one correspondence with the proper colorings of G. In particular, the Hilbert polynomial of K equals the chromatic polynomial of G. The ideal K is generated by square-free monomials, so A/K is the Stanley-Reisn...

Recently, Nevo introduced the notion of strongly edge decomposable spheres. In this paper, we characterize the algebraic shifted complex of those spheres. Algebraically, this result yields the characterization of the generic initial ideal of the Stanley–Reisner ideal of Gorenstein* complexes having the strong Lefschetz property in characteristic 0.

Abstract A triangulation of a polygon has an associated Stanley–Reisner ideal. We obtain full algebraic and combinatorial understanding these ideals describe their separated models. More generally, we do this for stacked simplicial complexes, in particular polytopes.

A squarefree monomial ideal is called an $f$-ideal if its Stanley–Reisner and facet simplicial complexes have the same $f$-vector. We show that $f$-ideals generated in a fixed degree asymptotic density zero when number of variables goes to infinity. also provide novel algorithms construct small degrees.

The research summarized in this thesis consists essentially of two parts. In the first, we generalize a coloring theorem of Baxter about triangulations of the plane (originally used to prove combinatorially Brouwer's fixed point theorem in two dimensions) to arbitrary dimensions and to oriented simplicial and cubical pseudomanifolds. We show that in a certain sense no other generalizations may ...

In this short note we show that Stanley-Reisner rings of simplicial complexes, which have had a ‘dramatic application’ in combinatorics [2, p. 41] possess a rigidity property in the sense that they determine their underlying simplicial complexes. For the readers convenience we recall the notion of a Stanley-Reisner ring (for more information the reader is referred to [1, Ch. 5]). Let V be a fin...

We give an elementary description of the maps in the linear strand of the minimal free resolution of a square-free monomial ideal, that is, the Stanley-Reisner ideal associated to a simplicial complex. The description is in terms of the homology of the canonical Alexander dual complex. As applications we are able to prove for monomial ideals and j = 1 a conjecture of J. Herzog giving lower boun...