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SimplicialComplexes -- exploring abstract simplicial complexes within commutative algebra

Description

An abstract simplicial complex is a family of finite sets closed under the operation of taking subsets. In this package, the finite set consists of variables in a polynomial ring and each subset is represented as a product of the corresponding variables. In other words, we exploit the natural bijection between abstract simplicial complexes and Stanley-Reisner ideals.

This package is designed to explore applications of abstract simplicial complexes within combinatorial commutative algebra. Introductions to this theory can be found in the following textbooks:

Contributors

The following people have generously contributed code, improved existing code, or enhanced the documentation: Janko Böhm, Sorin Popescu, Mike Stillman, and Lorenzo Venturello.

Caveat

This package is not intended to handle abstract simplicial complexes with a very large number of vertices, because computations in the corresponding polynomial ring are typically prohibitive.

See also

Authors

Certification a gold star

Version 2.0 of this package was accepted for publication in volume 13 of Journal of Software for Algebra and Geometry on 2023-03-21, in the article Simplicial complexes in Macaulay2 (DOI: 10.2140/jsag.2023.13.53). That version can be obtained from the journal or from the Macaulay2 source code repository.

Version

This documentation describes version 2.0 of SimplicialComplexes.

Source code

The source code from which this documentation is derived is in the file SimplicialComplexes.m2. The auxiliary files accompanying it are in the directory SimplicialComplexes/.

Exports

For the programmer

The object SimplicialComplexes is a package.