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The complement of a connected bipartite graph is vertex decomposable

Commutative Algebra 2009-02-26 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

Associated to a simple undirected graph GG is a simplicial complex ΔG\Delta_G whose faces correspond to the independent sets of GG. A graph GG is called vertex decomposable if ΔG\Delta_G is a vertex decomposable simplicial complex. We are interested in determining what families of graph have the property that the complement of GG, denoted by G\overline{G}, is vertex decomposable. We obtain the result that the complement of a connected bipartite graph is vertex decomposable and so it is Cohen-Macaulay due to pureness of ΔG\Delta_{\overline{G}}.

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@article{arxiv.0902.4342,
  title  = {The complement of a connected bipartite graph is vertex decomposable},
  author = {Mohammad Mahmoudi and Amir Mousivand and Siamak Yassemi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0902.4342},
  year   = {2009}
}

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5 pages

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