Connectivity of cubical polytopes

A cubical polytope is a polytope with all its facets being combinatorially equivalent to cubes. We deal with the connectivity of the graphs of cubical polytopes. We first establish that, for any d≥3, the graph of a cubical d-polytope with minimum degree δ is min⁡{δ,2d−2}-connected. Second, we show,...

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Main Authors: Bui, Hoa, Pineda-Villavicencio, Guillermo, Ugon, Julien
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2020
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/81335
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Summary:A cubical polytope is a polytope with all its facets being combinatorially equivalent to cubes. We deal with the connectivity of the graphs of cubical polytopes. We first establish that, for any d≥3, the graph of a cubical d-polytope with minimum degree δ is min⁡{δ,2d−2}-connected. Second, we show, for any d≥4, that every minimum separator of cardinality at most 2d−3 in such a graph consists of all the neighbours of some vertex and that removing the vertices of the separator from the graph leaves exactly two components, with one of them being the vertex itself.