This package includes routines for vertex decomposability and shellability for arbitrary simplicial complexes as well as routines for k-decomposability. Moreover, it can find a shelling order for a shellable simplicial complex.
References:
[BW-1] A. Bjoerner and M. Wachs, "Shellable nonpure complexes and posets, I," Trans. of the AMS 348 (1996), 1299--1327.
[BW-2] A. Bjoerner and M. Wachs, "Shellable nonpure complexes and posets, II," Trans. of the AMS 349 (1997), 3945--3975.
[MT] S. Moriyama and F. Takeuchi, "Incremental construction properties in dimension two: shellability, extendable shellability and vertex decomposability," Discrete Math. 263 (2003), 295--296.
[PB] J. S. Provan and L. J. Billera, "Decompositions of Simplicial Complexes Related to Diameters of Convex Polyhedra," Math. of Operations Research 5 (1980), 576--594.
[St] R. Stanley, "Combinatorics and Commutative Algebra," 2nd edition. Progress in Mathematics, 41. Birkhaeuser Boston, Inc. Boston, MA, 1996.
Version 1.0.5 of this package was accepted for publication in volume 2 of the journal The Journal of Software for Algebra and Geometry: Macaulay2 on 2010-08-03, in the article Simplicial Decomposability. That version can be obtained from the journal or from the Macaulay2 source code repository, after installing subversion, with the following shell command:
svn export -r 11861 svn://svn.macaulay2.com/Macaulay2/trunk/M2/Macaulay2/packages/SimplicialDecomposability.m2
The following command will display the log messages accompanying any changes to the file in the repository since publication.
svn log -r 11862:HEAD svn://svn.macaulay2.com/Macaulay2/trunk/M2/Macaulay2/packages/SimplicialDecomposability.m2
The following command will summarize the changes to the file in the repository since publication, in the format the program diff uses: lines starting with + have been added, and lines starting with - have been removed. (Changes to white space or end of line style will not be reported.)
svn diff -x "-b --ignore-eol-style" -r 11861:HEAD svn://svn.macaulay2.com/Macaulay2/trunk/M2/Macaulay2/packages/SimplicialDecomposability.m2
The differences between two releases in the repository mentioned in the log can be displayed by replacing 11861:HEAD by the pair of release numbers separated by a colon.