@Article{Juszczyk2010, author = "Juszczyk, Tomasz and Zioło, Irmina A.", title = "On some families of arbitrarily vertex decomposable spiders", journal = "Opuscula Math.", year = "2010", volume = "30", number = "2", pages = "147--154", doi = "http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2010.30.2.147", url = "http://dx.doi.org/10.7494/OpMath.2010.30.2.147", abstract = "A graph \(G\) of order \(n\) is called arbitrarily vertex decomposable if for each sequence \((n_1, ..., n_k)\) of positive integers such that \(\sum _{i=1}^{k} n_i = n\), there exists a partition \((V_1, ..., V_k)\) of the vertex set of \(G\) such that for every \(i \in \{1, ...., k\}\) the set \(V_i\) induces a connected subgraph of \(G\) on \(n_i\) vertices. A spider is a tree with one vertex of degree at least \(3\). We characterize two families of arbitrarily vertex decomposable spiders which are homeomorphic to stars with at most four hanging edges.", keywords = "arbitrarily vertex decomposable graph, trees", issn = "1232-9274" }