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We characterize all graphs for which the saturation of the second power of their edge ideals is Cohen–Macaulay.
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I am grateful to L. T. Hoa and T. N. Trung for many suggestions and discussions on the results of this paper. This article was started while the author was a visiting member at the Vietnam Institute for Advanced Study in Mathematics (VIASM). He would like to thank the Institution for its hospitality. The author is partially supported by the NAFOSTED (Vietnam) under grant number 101.01-2012.18. I also thank the referee for his helpful corrections and suggestions.
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Hoang, D.T. Cohen–Macaulayness of Saturation of the Second Power of Edge Ideals. Vietnam J. Math. 44, 649–664 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10013-015-0180-9
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