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...

Combinatorial commutative algebra is a branch of combinatorics, discrete geometry, and commutative algebra. On the one hand, problems from combinatorics or discrete geometry are studied using techniques from commutative algebra; on the other hand, questions in combinatorics motivated various results in commutative algebra. Since the fundamental papers of Stanley (see [13] for the results) and H...

We combine work of Cox on the homogeneous coordinate ring of a toric variety and results of Eisenbud-Mustaţǎ-Stillman and Mustaţǎ on cohomology of toric and monomial ideals to obtain a formula for computing χ(OX (D)) for a divisor D on a complete simplicial toric variety XΣ. The main point is to use Alexander duality to pass from the toric irrelevant ideal, which appears in the computation of χ...

For a graph of an n-cycle ∆ with Alexander dual ∆, we study the free resolution of a subideal G(n) of the Stanley-Reisner ideal I∆∗ . We prove that if G(n) is generated by 3 generic elements of I∆∗ , then the second syzygy module of G(n) is isomorphic to the second syzygy module of (x1, x2, . . . , xn). A result of Bruns shows that there is always a 3-generated ideal with this property. We show...

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...

A linear ball is a simplicial complex whose geometric realization is homeomorphic to a ball and whose Stanley–Reisner ring has a linear resolution. It turns out that the Stanley–Reisner ring of the sphere which is the boundary complex of a linear ball satisfies the multiplicity conjecture. A class of shellable spheres arising naturally from commutative algebra whose Stanley–Reisner rings satisf...

We prove that certain class of Stanley–Reisner rings having sufficiently large multiplicities are Cohen–Macaulay using Alexander duality.

We give a purely combinatorial characterization of complete Stanley-Reisner rings having a principally generated (equivalently, finitely generated) Cartier algebra.