A Characterization of Triangle-free Gorenstein graphs and Cohen-Macaulayness of second powers of edge ideals

Abstract

We graph-theoretically characterize triangle-free Gorenstein graphs $G$. As an application, we classify when $I(G{)}^2$ is Cohen-Macaulay.

15 pages, to appear in JACO

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