Spheres and balls as independence complexes

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Main Authors: Cooper, Susan M., Faridi, Sara, Holleben, Thiago, Nicklasson, Lisa, Van Tuyl, Adam
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Published: 2025
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author Cooper, Susan M.
Faridi, Sara
Holleben, Thiago
Nicklasson, Lisa
Van Tuyl, Adam
author_facet Cooper, Susan M.
Faridi, Sara
Holleben, Thiago
Nicklasson, Lisa
Van Tuyl, Adam
contents The terms "whiskering", and more generally "grafting", refer to adding generators to any monomial ideal to make the resulting ideal Cohen-Macaulay. We investigate the independence complexes of simplicial complexes that are constructed through a whiskering or grafting process, and we show that these independence complexes are (generalized) Bier balls. More specifically, the independence complexes are either homeomorphic to a ball or a sphere. In a related direction, we classify when the independence complexes of very well-covered graphs are homeomorphic to balls or spheres.
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spellingShingle Spheres and balls as independence complexes
Cooper, Susan M.
Faridi, Sara
Holleben, Thiago
Nicklasson, Lisa
Van Tuyl, Adam
Combinatorics
Commutative Algebra
05E45, 13F55, 05C69
The terms "whiskering", and more generally "grafting", refer to adding generators to any monomial ideal to make the resulting ideal Cohen-Macaulay. We investigate the independence complexes of simplicial complexes that are constructed through a whiskering or grafting process, and we show that these independence complexes are (generalized) Bier balls. More specifically, the independence complexes are either homeomorphic to a ball or a sphere. In a related direction, we classify when the independence complexes of very well-covered graphs are homeomorphic to balls or spheres.
title Spheres and balls as independence complexes
topic Combinatorics
Commutative Algebra
05E45, 13F55, 05C69
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.18490