Homological invariants of the Stanley–Reisner ring of a k-decomposable simplicial complex

Abstract

In this paper, we study the regularity and the projective dimension of the Stanley–Reisner ring of a [Formula: see text]-decomposable simplicial complex and explain these invariants with a recursive formula. To this aim, the graded Betti numbers of decomposable monomial ideals which is the dual concept for [Formula: see text]-decomposable simplicial complexes are studied and an inductive formula for the Betti numbers is given. As a corollary, for a shellable simplicial complex [Formula: see text], a formula for the regularity of the Stanley–Reisner ring of [Formula: see text] is presented. Finally, for a chordal clutter [Formula: see text], an upper bound for [Formula: see text] is given in terms of the regularities of edge ideals of some chordal clutters which are minors of [Formula: see text].