Real toric manifolds associated with chordal nestohedra

Abstract

This paper investigates the rational Betti numbers of real toric manifolds associated with chordal nestohedra. We consider the poset topology of a specific poset induced from a chordal building set, and show its EL-shellability. Based on this, we present an explicit description using alternating $B$-permutations for a chordal building set $B$, transforming the computing Betti numbers into a counting problem. This approach allows us to compute the a-number of a finite simple graph through permutation counting when the graph is chordal. In addition, we provide detailed computations for specific cases such as real Hochschild varieties corresponding to Hochschild polytopes.