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This paper investgates Stanley-Reisner ideals with pure resolutions. We first describe two infinite families of such ideals associated to highly symmetric complexes. We then prove a partial analogue to the first Boij-S\"oderberg Conjecture for Stanley-Reisner ideals, by detailing an algorithm for constructing Stanley-Reisner ideals with pure Betti diagrams of any given shape, save for an initial shift.
The aim of this thesis is to investigate the Betti diagrams of squarefree monomial ideals in polynomial rings. We use two key tools to help us study these diagrams. The first is the Stanley-Reisner Correspondence, which assigns a unique simplicial complex to every squarefree monomial ideal, and thus allows us to compute the Betti diagrams of these ideals from combinatorial properties of their corresponding complexes. As such, most of our work is combinatorial in nature. The second tool is Boij-Soderberg Theory, which views Betti diagrams as vectors in a rational vector space, and investigates them by considering the convex cone they generate. This thesis applies the theory to the cones generated by diagrams of squarefree monomial ideals. We begin by introducing all of these concepts, along with some preliminary results in both algebra and combinatorics. Chapter 3 then presents the dimensions of our cones, along with the vector spaces they span. Chapters 4 and 5 are devoted to the pure Betti diagrams in these cones, and the combinatorial properties of their associated complexes. Finally, Chapter 6 builds on these results to prove a partial analogue of the first Boij-Soderberg conjecture for squarefree monomial ideals, by detailing an algorithm for generating pure Betti diagrams of squarefree monomial ideals of any degree type.
Boij-Söderberg Theory views the Betti diagrams of graded modules over polynomial rings as vectors in a rational vector space, and studies the cone that these vectors generate (called a 'Betti Cone'). The objects of study in this paper are the Betti cones generated by edge ideals; in particular this paper will present and prove a formula for the dimensions of these cones, and for the subcones generated by edge ideals of specific heights.