On the cover ideals of chordal graphs

Authors: NURSEL EREY

Abstract: The independence complex of a chordal graph is known to be shellable which is equivalent to the fact that cover ideal of a chordal graph has linear quotients. We use this result to obtain recursive formulas for the Betti numbers of cover ideals of chordal graphs. Moreover, we give a new proof of such result which yields different shellings of the independence complex.

Keywords: Chordal graph, cover ideal, shellable, linear quotients, Betti numbers

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