Weakly closed graphs and F-purity of binomial edge ideals

Abstract

Herzog-Hibi-Hreind\'{o}ttir-Kahle-Rauh introduced the class of closed graph and they proved that the binomial edge ideal $J(G)$ of a graph $G$ has quadratic Gr\"{o}bner bases if $G$ is closed. In this paper, we introduce the class of weakly closed graph as a generalization of the closed graph and prove that the quotient ring $S/J(G)$ is $F$-pure if $G$ is weakly closed. This fact is a generalization of Ohtani's theorem.