Levelable graphs

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Autori principali: Bhaskara, Kieran, Chong, Michael Y. C., Hibi, Takayuki, Ragunathan, Naveena, Van Tuyl, Adam
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Pubblicazione: 2025
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author Bhaskara, Kieran
Chong, Michael Y. C.
Hibi, Takayuki
Ragunathan, Naveena
Van Tuyl, Adam
author_facet Bhaskara, Kieran
Chong, Michael Y. C.
Hibi, Takayuki
Ragunathan, Naveena
Van Tuyl, Adam
contents We study a family of positive weighted well-covered graphs, which we call levelable graphs, that are related to a construction of level artinian rings in commutative algebra. A graph $G$ is levelable if there exists a weight function with positive integer values on the vertices of $G$ such that $G$ is well-covered with respect to this weight function. That is, the sum of the weights in any maximal independent set of vertices of $G$ is the same. We describe some of the basic properties of levelable graphs and classify the levelable graphs for some families of graphs, e.g., trees, cubic circulants, Cameron--Walker graphs. We also explain the connection between levelable graphs and a class of level artinian rings. Applying a result of Brown and Nowakowski about weighted well-covered graphs, we show that for most graphs, their edge ideals are not Cohen--Macaulay.
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spellingShingle Levelable graphs
Bhaskara, Kieran
Chong, Michael Y. C.
Hibi, Takayuki
Ragunathan, Naveena
Van Tuyl, Adam
Combinatorics
Commutative Algebra
05C69, 05E40, 13E10
We study a family of positive weighted well-covered graphs, which we call levelable graphs, that are related to a construction of level artinian rings in commutative algebra. A graph $G$ is levelable if there exists a weight function with positive integer values on the vertices of $G$ such that $G$ is well-covered with respect to this weight function. That is, the sum of the weights in any maximal independent set of vertices of $G$ is the same. We describe some of the basic properties of levelable graphs and classify the levelable graphs for some families of graphs, e.g., trees, cubic circulants, Cameron--Walker graphs. We also explain the connection between levelable graphs and a class of level artinian rings. Applying a result of Brown and Nowakowski about weighted well-covered graphs, we show that for most graphs, their edge ideals are not Cohen--Macaulay.
title Levelable graphs
topic Combinatorics
Commutative Algebra
05C69, 05E40, 13E10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.02065