Jinha Kim explained the recent result on the Kalai-Meshulam conjecture by Zhang and Wu at the Discrete Math Seminar

On December 22, 2020, at the Discrete Math Seminar, Jinha Kim (김진하) from the IBS Discrete Mathematics Group presented the proof of the Kalai-Meshulam conjecture by Zhang and Wu, proving that for a graph G, the total Betti number of the independence complex of every induced subgraph of G is at most 1 if and only if G has no induced cycle of length 0 mod 3. The title of her talk was “On a conjecture by Kalai and Meshulam – the Betti number of the independence complex of ternary graphs“.