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Say I have a graph Gtest, which has multiple disconnected components. I found that I can isolate individual components while retaining vertex coordinate specifications if I use VertexDelete in the manner of:

VertexDelete[Gtest, ConnectedComponents[Gtest][[2]]]

Here assuming that Gtest has only two connected components. However, this seems like a ridiculous way of proceeding. Is there a one-liner that will let me make a list of graphs Glist = {g1, g2, g3, ...} where each $g_i$ corresponds to a particular connected graph in G? How can I do this while respecting my original vertex coordinate assignments for G?

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A more straightforward way is to use SetProperty on the resulting graph to restore the original vertex coordinates.

g = Graph[{2 -> 4, 1 -> 2, 2 -> 3, 3 -> 1, 5 -> 4, 4 -> 6, 1 -> 7, 2 -> 7},
          VertexLabels -> "Name", ImagePadding -> 10];
coord = Thread[VertexList@g -> (VertexCoordinates /. AbsoluteOptions@g)];
g2 = VertexDelete[g, {5, 1}];
g3 = SetProperty[g2, VertexCoordinates -> (VertexList@g2 /. coord)];

Grid[{{"original", "{5, 1} deleted", "coordinates restored"}, {g, g2, g3}}]

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There is no guarantee VertexDelete will preserve VertexCoordinates. However you can use Subgraph and manually provide the old coordinates:

connectedSubgraphs[g_Graph] :=
 Module[{
   vc = Transpose[{
           VertexList[g],
           VertexCoordinates /. AbsoluteOptions[g, VertexCoordinates]}]
   },
  Subgraph[g, #,
     (* Exctract the coordinates for vertices in the component *)
     VertexCoordinates -> Cases[vc, {v_ /; MemberQ[#, v], c_} :> c]
     ] & /@ ConnectedComponents[g]
  ]

If you have v9 you can use GraphEmbedding to get the coordinates instead of AbsoluteOptions

Note that this wont preserve any other options:

g = Graph[{
    10 \[UndirectedEdge] 11, 11 \[UndirectedEdge] 12, 
    12 \[UndirectedEdge] 13, 13 \[UndirectedEdge] 10,
    1 \[UndirectedEdge] 2, 2 \[UndirectedEdge] 3,
    4 \[UndirectedEdge] 5, 5 \[UndirectedEdge] 6,
    7 \[UndirectedEdge] 8, 8 \[UndirectedEdge] 9},
   VertexStyle -> {1 -> Red, 2 -> Blue, 3 -> Green},
   VertexSize -> {1 -> Large}];
connectedSubgraphs[g] // Row

graphs

But it can be extended as is shown in Preserving labels when using graph functions

Disclaimer: I don't know if ConnectedComponents and Subgraph always preserve the vertex order, if they don't the subgraphs will be given incorrect coordinates.

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