Abstract
A recent conjecture that appeared in three papers by Bigdeli–Faridi, Dochtermann, and Nikseresht, is that every simplicial complex whose clique complex has shellable Alexander dual, is ridge-chordal. This strengthens the long-standing Simon's conjecture that the k-skeleton of the simplex is extendably shellable, for any k. We show that the stronger conjecture has a negative answer, by exhibiting an infinite family of counterexamples.
