Dirac's theorem on chordal graphs and Alexander duality

  • Authors:
  • Jürgen Herzog;Takayuki Hibi;Xinxian Zheng

  • Affiliations:
  • Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, 45117 Essen, Germany;Department of Pure and Applied Mathematics, Graduate School of Information Science and Technology, Osaka University, Toyonaka, Osaka 560-0043, Japan;Fachbereich Mathematik und Informatik, Universität Duisburg-Essen, 45117 Essen, Germany

  • Venue:
  • European Journal of Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

By using Alexander duality on simplicial complexes we give a new and algebraic proof of Dirac's theorem on chordal graphs and some algebraic applications.