A characterization of shellable and sequentially Cohen-Macaulay

Document Type : Research Paper

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Amirkabir University of Technology

Abstract

We consider a class of hypergraphs called
hypercycles and we show that a hypercycle $C_n^{d,alpha}$ is
shellable or sequentially the Cohen--Macaulay if and only if
$nin{3,5}$. Also, we characterize Cohen--Macaulay hypercycles.
These results are hypergraph versions of results proved for cycles
in graphs.

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