Polygon Dissections Complexes are Shellable

Authors

  • Duško Jojić

Abstract

All dissections of a convex (mn + 2)-gons into (m + 2)-gons are
facets of a simplicial complex. This complex is introduced by S. Fomin and A.V. Zelevinsky in [7]. We reprove the result of E. Tzanaki about shellability of such complex by nding a concrete shelling order. Also, we use this shelling order to nd a combinatorial interpretation of h-vector and to describe the
generating facets of these complexes.

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2017-04-12

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