Resolving Stanley's conjecture on k-fold acyclic complexes

Joseph Doolittle, Bennet Goeckner

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Abstract

In 1993 Stanley showed that if a simplicial complex is acyclic over some field, then its face poset can be decomposed into disjoint rank 1 boolean intervals whose minimal faces together form a subcomplex. Stanley further conjectured that complexes with a higher notion of acyclicity could be decomposed in a similar way using boolean intervals of higher rank. We provide an explicit counterexample to this conjecture. We also prove a version of the conjecture for boolean trees and show that the original conjecture holds when this notion of acyclicity is as high as possible.
Originalspracheenglisch
Seitenumfang13
FachzeitschriftCombinatorial Theory
Jahrgang1
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PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 15 Dez. 2021

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