On γ-Vectors Satisfying the Kruskal–Katona Inequalities
On γ-Vectors Satisfying the Kruskal–Katona Inequalities
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关于满足 Kruskal-Katona 不等式的 γ 向量
DOI:
10.1007/s00454-010-9243-6
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发表时间:
2009
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0.8
通讯作者:
T. K. Petersen
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作者:
Eran Nevo;T. K. Petersen
We present examples of flag homology spheres whose γ-vectors satisfy the Kruskal–Katona inequalities. This includes several families of well-studied simplicial complexes, including Coxeter complexes and the simplicial complexes dual to the associahedron and to the cyclohedron. In these cases, we construct explicit flag simplicial complexes whose f-vectors are the γ-vectors in question, and so a result of Frohmader shows that the γ-vectors satisfy not only the Kruskal–Katona inequalities but also the stronger Frankl–Füredi–Kalai inequalities. In another direction, we show that if a flag (d−1)-sphere has at most 2d+3 vertices its γ-vector satisfies the Frankl–Füredi–Kalai inequalities. We conjecture that if Δ is a flag homology sphere then γ(Δ) satisfies the Kruskal–Katona, and further, the Frankl–Füredi–Kalai inequalities. This conjecture is a significant refinement of Gal’s conjecture, which asserts that such γ-vectors are nonnegative.