On Vertex Decomposable Simplicial Complexes and Their Alexander Duals

Vertex Decomposable Simplicial Complexes Associated to Path Graphs

Introduction Vertex decomposability of a simplicial complex is a combinatorial topological concept which is related to the algebraic properties of the Stanley-Reisner ring of the simplicial complex. This notion was first defined by Provan and Billera in 1980 for k-decomposable pure complexes which is known as vertex decomposable when . Later Bjorner and Wachs extended this concept to non-pure ...

Balanced Vertex Decomposable Simplicial Complexes and their h-vectors

Given any finite simplicial complex ∆, we show how to construct from a colouring χ of ∆ a new simplicial complex ∆χ that is balanced and vertex decomposable. In addition, the h-vector of ∆χ is precisely the f -vector of ∆. Our construction generalizes the “whiskering” construction of Villarreal, and Cook and Nagel. We also reverse this construction to prove a special case of a conjecture of Coo...

On Isomorphism of Simplicial Complexes and Their Related Algebras

Constructing vertex decomposable graphs

‎Recently‎, ‎some techniques such as adding whiskers and attaching graphs to vertices of a given graph‎, ‎have been proposed for constructing a new vertex decomposable graph‎. ‎In this paper‎, ‎we present a new method for constructing vertex decomposable graphs‎. ‎Then we use this construction to generalize the result due to Cook and Nagel‎.

Representing Vertex-Based Simplicial Multi-complexes