The classes of sequentially Cohen-Macaulay and sequentially homotopy Cohen-Macaulay complexes and posets are studied. First, some different versions of the definitions are discussed and the homotopy type is determined. Second, it is shown how various constructions, such as join, product and rank-selection preserve these properties. Third, a characterization of sequential Cohen-Macaulayness for ...

Associated to a simple undirected graph G is a simplicial complex ∆G whose faces correspond to the independent sets of G. We call a graph G shellable if ∆G is a shellable simplicial complex in the non-pure sense of Björner-Wachs. We are then interested in determining what families of graphs have the property that G is shellable. We show that all chordal graphs are shellable. Furthermore, we cla...

Let G be a simple (i.e., no loops and no multiple edges) graph. We investigate the question of how to modify G combinatorially to obtain a sequentially CohenMacaulay graph. We focus on modifications given by adding configurations of whiskers to G, where to add a whisker one adds a new vertex and an edge connecting this vertex to an existing vertex in G. We give various sufficient conditions and...

Let I be a monomial ideal of the polynomial ring S = K[x1, . . . , x4] over a field K. Then S/I is sequentially Cohen-Macaulay if and only if S/I is pretty clean. In particular, if S/I is sequentially Cohen-Macaulay then I is a Stanley ideal.

We prove that sequentially Cohen-Macaulay rings in positive characteristic, as well as sequentially Cohen-Macaulay Stanley-Reisner rings in any characteristic, have trivial Lyubeznik table. Some other configurations of Lyubeznik tables are also provided depending on the deficiency modules of the ring.

In this paper, we explore the relation between index of reducibility and Hilbert coefficients in local rings. Consequently, main result study provides a characterization sequentially Cohen-Macaulay ring terms its non-parameter ideals. As corollaries to theorem, obtain characterizations Gorenstein/Cohen-Macaulay Chern

Let I ⊂ R be a graded ideal in the polynomial ring R = K[x1, . . . , xn] where K is a field, and fix a term order <. It has been shown in [17] that the Hilbert functions of the local cohomology modules of R/I are bounded by those of R/ in(I), where in(I) denotes the initial ideal of I with respect to <. In this note we study the question when the local cohomology modules of R/I and R/ in(I) hav...