Simplicial Complexes of Graphs

Download or read book Simplicial Complexes of Graphs written by Jakob Jonsson and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2007-11-15 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A graph complex is a finite family of graphs closed under deletion of edges. Graph complexes show up naturally in many different areas of mathematics. Identifying each graph with its edge set, one may view a graph complex as a simplicial complex and hence interpret it as a geometric object. This volume examines topological properties of graph complexes, focusing on homotopy type and homology. Many of the proofs are based on Robin Forman's discrete version of Morse theory.