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We study Stanley decompositions and show that Stanley’s conjecture on Stanley decompositions implies his conjecture on partitionable Cohen–Macaulay simplicial complexes. We also prove these conjectures for all Cohen–Macaulay monomial ideals of codimension 2 and all Gorenstein monomial ideals of codimension 3.
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Dedicated to Takayuki Hibi on the occasion of his fiftieth birthday.
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Herzog, J., Jahan, A.S. & Yassemi, S. Stanley decompositions and partitionable simplicial complexes. J Algebr Comb 27, 113–125 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10801-007-0076-1
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