Cohen-macaulay bipartite graphs

Shellable graphs and sequentially Cohen-Macaulay bipartite graphs

Associated to a simple undirected graph G is a simplicial complex ∆G whose faces correspond to the independent sets of G. We call a graph G shellable if ∆G is a shellable simplicial complex in the non-pure sense of Björner-Wachs. We are then interested in determining what families of graphs have the property that G is shellable. We show that all chordal graphs are shellable. Furthermore, we cla...

Sequentially Cohen-macaulay Bipartite Graphs: Vertex Decomposability and Regularity

Let G be a bipartite graph with edge ideal I(G) whose quotient ring R/I(G) is sequentially Cohen-Macaulay. We prove: (1) the independence complex of G must be vertex decomposable, and (2) the Castelnuovo-Mumford regularity of R/I(G) can be determined from the invariants of G.

Bi-Cohen-Macaulay graphs

In this paper we consider bi-Cohen-Macaulay graphs, and give a complete classification of such graphs in the case they are bipartite or chordal. General biCohen-Macaulay graphs are classified up to separation. The inseparable bi-CohenMacaulay graphs are determined. We establish a bijection between the set of all trees and the set of inseparable bi-Cohen-Macaulay graphs.

Sequentially Cohen-Macaulay Graphs of Form θ_{n1, ...nk}

Whiskers and sequentially Cohen-Macaulay graphs

Let G be a simple (i.e., no loops and no multiple edges) graph. We investigate the question of how to modify G combinatorially to obtain a sequentially CohenMacaulay graph. We focus on modifications given by adding configurations of whiskers to G, where to add a whisker one adds a new vertex and an edge connecting this vertex to an existing vertex in G. We give various sufficient conditions and...