The Coloring Ideal and Coloring Complex of a Graph

Details The Coloring Ideal and Coloring Complex of a Graph The Coloring Ideal and Coloring Complex of a Graph

2001-04-05

arxiv.org/abs/math/0104063v1

Mathematics

Combinatorics

13 pages, 3 figures

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Let $G$ be a simple graph on $d$ vertices. We define a monomial ideal $K$ in the Stanley-Reisner ring $A$ of the order complex of the Boolean algebra on $d$ atoms. The monomials in $K$ are in one-to-one correspondence with the proper colorings of $G$. In particular, the Hilbert polynomial of $K$ equals the chromatic polynomial of $G$. The ideal $K$ is generated by square-free monomials, so $A/K$ is the Stanley-Reisner ring of a simplicial complex $C$. The $h$-vector of $C$ is a certain transformation of the tail $T(n)= n^d-k(n)$ of the chromatic polynomial $k$ of $G$. The combinatorial structure of the complex $C$ is described explicitly and it is shown that the Euler characteristic of $C$ equals the number of acyclic orientations of $G$.

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