Shellability of $3$-Cut Complexes of Squared Cycle Graphs

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Autores principales: Chauhan, Pratiksha, Shukla, Samir, Vinayak, Kumar
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author Chauhan, Pratiksha
Shukla, Samir
Vinayak, Kumar
author_facet Chauhan, Pratiksha
Shukla, Samir
Vinayak, Kumar
contents For a positive integer $k$, the $k$-cut complex of a graph $G$ is the simplicial complex whose facets are the $(|V(G)|-k)$-subsets $σ$ of the vertex set $V(G)$ of $G$ such that the induced subgraph of $G$ on $V(G) \setminus σ$ is disconnected. These complexes first appeared in the master thesis of Denker and were further studied by Bayer et al.\ in [Topology of cut complexes of graphs, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 2024]. In the same article, Bayer et al.\ conjectured that for $k \geq 3$, the $k$-cut complexes of squared cycle graphs are shellable. Moreover, they also conjectured about the Betti numbers of these complexes when $k=3$. In this article, we prove these conjectures for $k=3$.
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spellingShingle Shellability of $3$-Cut Complexes of Squared Cycle Graphs
Chauhan, Pratiksha
Shukla, Samir
Vinayak, Kumar
Combinatorics
For a positive integer $k$, the $k$-cut complex of a graph $G$ is the simplicial complex whose facets are the $(|V(G)|-k)$-subsets $σ$ of the vertex set $V(G)$ of $G$ such that the induced subgraph of $G$ on $V(G) \setminus σ$ is disconnected. These complexes first appeared in the master thesis of Denker and were further studied by Bayer et al.\ in [Topology of cut complexes of graphs, SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 2024]. In the same article, Bayer et al.\ conjectured that for $k \geq 3$, the $k$-cut complexes of squared cycle graphs are shellable. Moreover, they also conjectured about the Betti numbers of these complexes when $k=3$. In this article, we prove these conjectures for $k=3$.
title Shellability of $3$-Cut Complexes of Squared Cycle Graphs
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.01979