TY - JOUR AU - Emtander, Eric PY - 2010/03/01 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - A class of hypergraphs that generalizes chordal graphs JF - MATHEMATICA SCANDINAVICA JA - Math. Scand. VL - 106 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.7146/math.scand.a-15124 UR - https://www.mscand.dk/article/view/15124 SP - 50-66 AB - In this paper we introduce a class of hypergraphs that we call chordal. We also extend the definition of triangulated hypergraphs, given by H. T. Hà and A. Van Tuyl, so that a triangulated hypergraph, according to our definition, is a natural generalization of a chordal (rigid circuit) graph. R. Fröberg has showed that the chordal graphs corresponds to graph algebras, $R/I(\mathcal{G})$, with linear resolutions. We extend Fröberg's method and show that the hypergraph algebras of generalized chordal hypergraphs, a class of hypergraphs that includes the chordal hypergraphs, have linear resolutions. The definitions we give, yield a natural higher dimensional version of the well known flag property of simplicial complexes. We obtain what we call $d$-flag complexes. ER -