The Manin ring is a family of quadratic algebras describing pointed stable curves of genus zero whose homology gives the solution of the Commutativity Equations. This solution was first observed by the physicist Losev. We show the Manin ring is the Stanley–Reisner ring of the standard triangulation of the n-cube modulo a system of parameters. Thus, the Hilbert series of the Manin ring is given ...

Rings of differential operators are notoriously difficult to compute. This paper computes the ring of differential operators on a Stanley-Reisner ring R. The D-module structure of R is determined. This yields a new proof that Nakai’s conjecture holds for Stanley-Reisner rings. An application to tight closure is described. @ 1999 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved. AMS Clas.@cation: Prima...

For a simplicial complex ∆ we study the effect of barycentric subdivision on ring theoretic invariants of its StanleyReisner ring. In particular, for Stanley-Reisner rings of barycentric subdivisions we verify a conjecture by Huneke and Herzog & Srinivasan, that relates the multiplicity of a standard graded k-algebra to the product of the maximal shifts in its minimal free resolution up to the ...

Abstract In this paper, we introduce the notion of a connected sum K1 #Z K2 of simplicial complexes K1 and K2, as well as define a strong connected sum. Geometrically, the connected sum is motivated by Lerman’s symplectic cut applied to a toric orbifold, and algebraically, it is motivated by the connected sum of rings introduced by Ananthnarayan–Avramov–Moore [1]. We show that the Stanley–Reisn...

In this paper, we study Lefschetz properties of Artinian reductions of Stanley–Reisner rings of balanced simplicial 3-polytopes. A (d − 1)-dimensional simplicial complex is said to be balanced if its graph is d-colorable. If a simplicial complex is balanced, then its Stanley–Reisner ring has a special system of parameters induced by the coloring. We prove that the Artinian reduction of the Stan...

In [2], Billera proved that the R-algebra of continuous piecewise polynomial functions (C0 splines) on a d-dimensional simplicial complex 1 embedded in Rd is a quotient of the Stanley–Reisner ring A1 of 1. We derive a criterion to determine which elements of the Stanley–Reisner ring correspond to splines of higher-order smoothness. In [5], Lau and Stiller point out that the dimension of C k (1)...

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...

When a cone is added to a simplicial complex ∆ over one of its faces, we investigate the relation between the arithmetical ranks of the StanleyReisner ideals of the original simplicial complex and the new simplicial complex ∆′. In particular, we show that the arithmetical rank of the Stanley-Reisner ideal of ∆′ equals the projective dimension of the Stanley-Reisner ring of ∆′ if the correspondi...