Matching Complexes of Outerplanar Graphs

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Autori principali: Bayer, Margaret, Milutinović, Marija Jelić, Vega, Julianne
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author Bayer, Margaret
Milutinović, Marija Jelić
Vega, Julianne
author_facet Bayer, Margaret
Milutinović, Marija Jelić
Vega, Julianne
contents An outerplanar graph is a planar graph that has a planar drawing with all vertices on the unbounded face. The matching complex of a graph is the simplicial complex whose faces are subsets of disjoint edges of the graph. In this paper we prove that the matching complexes of outerplanar graphs are contractible or homotopy equivalent to a wedge of spheres. This extends known results about trees and polygonal line tilings.
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spellingShingle Matching Complexes of Outerplanar Graphs
Bayer, Margaret
Milutinović, Marija Jelić
Vega, Julianne
Combinatorics
05C70 (primary), 05C10, 05E45, 55U10 (secondary)
An outerplanar graph is a planar graph that has a planar drawing with all vertices on the unbounded face. The matching complex of a graph is the simplicial complex whose faces are subsets of disjoint edges of the graph. In this paper we prove that the matching complexes of outerplanar graphs are contractible or homotopy equivalent to a wedge of spheres. This extends known results about trees and polygonal line tilings.
title Matching Complexes of Outerplanar Graphs
topic Combinatorics
05C70 (primary), 05C10, 05E45, 55U10 (secondary)
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2411.04601