Neighborhood Complexes of Some Exponential Graphs

  • Nandini Nilakantan
  • Samir Shukla
Keywords: Hom Complexes, Exponential Graphs, Discrete Morse Theory

Abstract

In this article, we consider the bipartite graphs $K_2 \times K_n$. We first show that the connectedness of the neighborhood complex $\mathcal{N}(K_{n+1}^{K_n}) =0$. Further, we show that Hom$(K_2 \times K_{n}, K_{m})$ is homotopic to $S^{m-2}$, if $2\leq m <n$.

Published
2016-05-13
Article Number
P2.26