Real toric manifolds associated with chordal nestohedra

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 \(\mathcal{B}\)-permutations for a chordal building set \(\mathcal{B}\), 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.