Topological Cohen-Macaulay criteria for monomial ideals
Abstract
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Scattered over the past few years have been several occurrences of simplicial complexes whose topological behavior characterize the Cohen-Macaulay property for quotients of polynomial rings by arbitrary (not necessarily squarefree) monomial ideals. The purpose of this survey is to gather the developments into one location, with self-contained proofs, including direct combinatorial topological connections between them.
19 pages, for proceedings of the Conference on Combinatorial Commutative Algebra and Computer Algebra (Mangalia, Romania, May 2008)
19 pages, for proceedings of the Conference on Combinatorial Commutative Algebra and Computer Algebra (Mangalia, Romania, May 2008)