On the Homotopy Type of the Polyhedral Join over the Independence Complex of a Forest

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Authors: Kengo Okura 

Publication date: 21 March 2023

Abstract: We consider a certain class of simplicial complexes which includes the independence complexes of forests. We show that if a simplicial complex $K$ belongs to this class, then the polyhedral join $mathcal{Z}_K^{\ast }(underlineX,emptyset)$ is homotopy equivalent to a wedge sum of CW complexes of the form $Sigm{a}^r{X}_{i_1}\ast X_{i_2}\ast cdots\ast X_{i_k}$, where $underlineX$ is a family ${X_i}_{iinV(K)}$ of CW complexes and $Sigma$ denotes the unreduced suspension. This result is applied to study the homotopy type of the independence complex of the lexicographic product $G[H]$ of a graph $H$ over a forest $G$. We denote by $L_m$ a tree on $m$ vertices with no branches. We show that the geometric realization of the independence complex of $L_m[H]$ is homotopy equivalent to a wedge sum of spheres if $meq2,3$ and the geometric realization of the independence complex of $H$ is homotopy equivalent to a wedge sum of same dimensional spheres.

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Vertex subsets with special properties (dominating sets, independent sets, cliques, etc.) (05C69) Graph operations (line graphs, products, etc.) (05C76) Combinatorial aspects of simplicial complexes (05E45)

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