Spheres arising from multicomplexes

In 1992, Thomas Bier introduced a surprisingly simple way to construct a large number of simplicial spheres. He proved that, for any simplicial complex $\Delta$ on the vertex set $V$ with $\Delta \ne 2^V$, the deleted join of $\Delta$ with its Alexander dual $\Delta^\vee$ is a combinatorial sphere. In this paper, we extend Bier's construction to multicomplexes, and study their combinatorial and algebraic properties. We show that all these spheres are shellable and edge decomposable, which yields a new class of many shellable edge decomposable spheres that are not realizable as polytopes. It is also shown that these spheres are related to polarizations and Alexander duality for monomial ideals which appear in commutative algebra theory.Comment: 20 pages. Improve presentation. To appear in Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series

Algebraic shifting of strongly edge decomposable spheres

Recently, Nevo introduced the notion of strongly edge decomposable spheres. In this paper, we characterize the algebraic shifted complex of those spheres. Algebraically, this result yields the characterization of the generic initial ideal of the Stanley--Reisner ideal of Gorenstein* complexes having the strong Lefschetz property in characteristic 0.Comment: 19 pages. Add a few examples in the Introduction. To appear in J. Combin. Theory Ser.

Generic initial ideals and squeezed spheres

In 1988 Kalai construct a large class of simplicial spheres, called squeezed spheres, and in 1991 presented a conjectured 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 $d$-ball, generic initial ideals of Stanley--Reisner ideals of squeezed balls will be determined. In addition, generic initial ideals of exterior face ideals of squeezed balls are determined. On the other hand, we study the squeezing operation, which assigns to each Gorenstein* complex $\Gamma$ having the weak Lefschetz property a squeezed sphere $\mathrm{Sq}(\Gamma)$, and show that this operation increases graded Betti numbers.Comment: 28 pages, proofs in Section 5 and 6 are modified, an example of the squeezing operation is added, to appear in Adv. Mat