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Collapsibility of non-cover complexes of graphs

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ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF COMBINATORICS
Volume 27, Issue 1, Pages -

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ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF COMBINATORICS
DOI: 10.37236/8684

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  1. National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Education [NRF-2018R1D1A1B07043049]
  2. Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Research Fund
  3. National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Ministry of Science, ICT and Future Planning [NRF-2018R1C1B6003577]

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Let G be a graph on the vertex set V. A vertex subset W subset of V is a cover of G if V\W is an independent set of G, and W is a non-cover of G if W is not a cover of G. The non-cover complex of G is a simplicial complex on V whose faces are non-covers of G. Then the non-cover complex of G is the combinatorial Alexander dual of the independence complex of G. Aharoni asked if the non-cover complex of a graph G without isolated vertices is (vertical bar V(G)vertical bar-i gamma(G)-1)-collapsible where i gamma(G) denotes the independence domination number of G. Extending a result by the second author, who verified Aharoni's question in the affirmative for chordal graphs, we prove that the answer to the question is yes for all graphs.

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