Kalai's Squeezed Spheres Are Shellable

Kalai's squeezed 3-spheres are polytopal

Simplicial Shellable Spheres via Combinatorial Blowups

The construction of the Bier sphere Bier(K) for a simplicial complex K is due to Bier (1992). Björner, Paffenholz, Sjöstrand and Ziegler (2005) generalize this construction to obtain a Bier poset Bier(P, I) from any bounded poset P and any proper ideal I ⊆ P . They show shellability of Bier(P, I) for the case P = Bn, the boolean lattice, and thereby obtain ‘many shellable spheres’ in the sense ...

Planar Lattices are Lexicographically Shellable

The special properties of planar posets have been studied, particularly in the 1970's by I. Rival and others. More recently, the connection between posets, their corresponding polynomial rings and corresponding simplicial complexes has been studied by R. Stanley and others. This paper, using work of A. Bjorner, provides a connection between the two bodies of work, by characterizing when planar...

Polygon Dissections Complexes Are Shellable

All dissections of a convex (mn + 2)-gons into (m + 2)-gons are facets of a simplicial complex. This complex is introduced by S. Fomin and A.V. Zelevinsky in [7]. We reprove the result of E. Tzanaki about shellability of such complex by finding a concrete shelling order. Also, we use this shelling order to find a combinatorial interpretation of h-vector and to describe the generating facets of ...

Generic Initial Ideals and Squeezed Spheres

In 1988 Kalai construct a large class of simplicial spheres, called squeezed spheres, and in 1991 presented a conjecture about generic initial ideals of Stanley–Reisner ideals of squeezed spheres. In the present paper this conjecture will be proved. In order to prove Kalai’s conjecture, based on the fact that every squeezed (d−1)-sphere is the boundary of a certain d-ball, called a squeezed d-b...