A tree T is arbitrarily vertex decomposable if for any sequence τ of positive integers adding up to the order of T there is a sequence of vertexdisjoint subtrees of T whose orders are given by τ ; from a result by Barth and Fournier it follows that ∆(T ) ≤ 4. A necessary and a sufficient condition for being an arbitrarily vertex decomposable star-like tree have been exhibited. The conditions se...

A graph G = (V,E) is arbitrarily vertex decomposable if for any sequence τ of positive integers adding up to |V |, there is a sequence of vertex-disjoint subsets of V whose orders are given by τ , and which induce connected graphs. The aim of this paper is to study the recursive version of this problem on a special class of graphs called suns. This paper is a complement of [O. Baudon, F. Gilber...

A graph G = (V,E) is arbitrarily vertex decomposable if for any sequence τ of positive integers adding up to |V |, there is a sequence of vertex-disjoint subsets of V whose orders are given by τ , and which induce connected graphs. The main aim of this paper is to study the recursive version of this problem. We present a solution for trees, suns, and partially for a class of 2-connected graphs ...

A graph G of order n is called arbitrarily vertex decomposable if for each sequence (n1, . . . , nk) of positive integers such that ∑k i=1 ni = n, there exists a partition (V1, . . . , Vk) of vertex set of G such that for every i ∈ {1, . . . , k} the set Vi induces a connected subgraph of G on ni vertices. We consider arbitrarily vertex decomposable unicyclic graphs with dominating cycle. We al...

Given a finite simple undirected graph G there is simplicial complex Ind(G), called the independence complex, whose faces correspond to independent sets of G. This well-studied concept because it provides fertile ground for interactions between commutative algebra, theory and algebraic topology. In this paper, we consider generalization complex. [Formula: see text], subset vertex set r-independ...

Let G = (V,E) be a graph. If G is a König graph or if G is a graph without 3-cycles and 5-cycles, we prove that the following conditions are equivalent: ∆G is pure shellable, R/I∆ is Cohen-Macaulay, G is an unmixed vertex decomposable graph and G is well-covered with a perfect matching of König type e1, . . . , eg without 4-cycles with two ei’s. Furthermore, we study vertex decomposable and she...