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Notation
- $\mathcal M$
Multiset construction.
- $\mathcal M_{\le2}(V)$
Multisets from $V$ of cardinality at most $2$.
- incidence
$\iota_G:$$E$$\to$$\mathcal M_{\le2}(V)$.
- multiplicity
$m_X(x)$.
- $d$
Regular degree parameter.
- $\alpha$
Independence number.
- $\delta$
Minimum degree.
- $\kappa$
Vertex connectivity.
- $\lambda$
Nontrivial adjacency eigenvalue in spectral contexts.
- $\prime$
Context mark for a derived graph or parameter.
- alpha
≡ $\alpha$.
- delta
≡ $\delta$.
- kappa
≡ $\kappa$.
- prime
≡ $\prime$.
- Prime symbol
≡ $\prime$.
- chi
≡ $\chi$.
- chi(G)
≡ chromatic number.
- Delta(G)
≡ maximum degree.
- G
Ambient graph.
- H
Subgraph or pattern graph.
- V
Vertex set.
- E
Edge set.
- K
Complete-graph prefix.
- L
Line-graph operator.
- W
Walk or vertex subset fixed by context.
- $\binom V2$
Two-element subsets of $V$.
- $P_n$
Path graph on $n$ vertices.
- $\square$
Cartesian graph product.
- $\times$
Direct graph product.
- $\sqcup$
Disjoint union.
- $\setminus$
Set difference.
Canonical Core
Objects
- vertex
$v\in $$V$.
- edge
$e\in $$E$.
- endpoint
Member of $\partial e$.
- loop
$\partial e=\{v,v\}$.
- multiple edge
Shares $\partial e$.
- simple graph
≡ simple.
- multigraph
Repeated endpoint multisets.
- pseudograph
Multigraph with loops.
- hypergraph
Finite hyperedges.
Directed Objects
- directed graph
$($$V$$,$$A$$,$$t$$,$$h$$)$.
- arc
$a\in A$.
- tail
$t(a)$.
- head
$h(a)$.
- DAG
Directed graph with no directed cycle.
- oriented graph
≡ oriented.
Incidence
- incident
$m_{\partial e}(v)$$>0$.
- adjacent
Shared edge or endpoint.
- neighbor
Adjacent vertex.
- neighborhood
$N_G(v)=\{u:uv\in $$E$$\}$.
- degree
$\deg_G(v)=\sum_e $$m_{\partial e}(v)$.
- in-degree
Entering arc count.
- out-degree
Leaving arc count.
Walks
- walk
Incidence-respecting sequence.
- trail
Walk with distinct edges.
- path
Walk with distinct vertices.
- cycle
Closed positive-length path.
- acyclic
No cycle.
- Eulerian
Uses every edge.
- Hamiltonian
Uses every vertex.
Substructure
- subgraph
$H$$\le $$G$ by subset incidence.
- induced subgraph
$G$$[S]$ keeps exactly edges inside $S$.
- spanning subgraph
$V$$($$H$$)=$$V(G)$.
Connectivity
- connected
Every vertex pair has a path.
- component
Maximal connected subgraph.
- strongly connected
Directed paths both ways.
- weakly connected
Connected underlying graph.
Trees
- tree
Unique path between vertex pairs.
- forest
Tree components.
- rooted tree
Root paths define parent, child, ancestor, descendant, leaf, depth, height.
Classes and Sets
- regular
Constant degree.
- complete
$E$$=$$\binom V2$.
- bipartite
$V$$=X$$\sqcup$$ Y$ with crossing edges.
- non-edge
Element of $\binom V2$$\setminus$$ $$E$.
- clique
Induces complete graph.
- independent set
Induces edgeless graph.
- matching
Disjoint endpoints.
Coloring
- coloring
Map from graph objects to colors.
- $\chi$
Minimum proper vertex colors.
Geometry
- planar
Sphere embedding with intersections only at endpoints.
- embedding
Surface drawing.
- face
Complement component.
- genus
Minimum orientable genus.
Metrics
- distance
Minimum path length.
- eccentricity
Maximum distance from a vertex.
- radius
Minimum eccentricity.
- diameter
Maximum eccentricity.
- girth
Minimum cycle length.
- circumference
Maximum cycle length.
Cuts and Maps
- partition
Pairwise disjoint nonempty blocks whose union is the set.
- equivalence relation
Reflexive symmetric transitive relation.
- cut
Vertex partition plus crossing edges.
- edge cut
Edge deletion raises component count.
- vertex cut
Vertex deletion raises component count.
- bridge
Singleton edge cut.
- cut vertex
Singleton vertex cut.
- isomorphism
Incidence-preserving bijection.
- local isomorphism
Isomorphism on each neighborhood.
- automorphism
Self-isomorphism.
- homomorphism
Adjacency-preserving map.
- quotient
Object induced on equivalence classes.
- quotient set
Set of equivalence classes.
- quotient object
Quotient with inherited structure.
- quotient map
Map sending each element to its equivalence class.
- quotient graph
Graph on partition blocks with edge inherited from adjacent original vertices.
- covering map
Surjective local isomorphism.
- covering graph
Domain of a covering map.
- minor
Deletions and contractions.
Constructors
Class Modifiers
- critical
Minimal source-extremal member.
- maximal
Feasible object with no feasible proper superobject.
- minimal
Feasible object with no feasible proper subobject.
- maximum
Feasible object of largest cardinality.
Operations
- dual
Planar face-edge dual.
- orientation
Edge direction choice.
- converse
Reversed arcs.
- transpose
Reversed arcs.
- join
Disjoint union plus cross edges.
- closure
Least supergraph containing $G$ with the named property.
- decomposition
Indexed pieces whose union recovers the object.
Exact Source-Term Entries
Core Variants
- graph
$G$$=($$V$$,$$E$$,\iota)$.
- vertex set
$V$$($$G$$)$.
- edge set
$E$$($$G$$)$.
- size
$|$$E(G)$$|$.
- size of a graph
≡ size.
- order
$|$$V(G)$$|$.
- simple
Injective $\iota:$$E$$\to$$\binom V2$.
- multiple
≡ multiple edge.
- multiple adjacency
Distinct edges sharing endpoints.
- directed
Uses arcs with tail and head.
- undirected
Uses endpoint sets without orientation.
- mixed
Edges and arcs.
- unweighted graph
≡ unweighted.
- unweighted
Graph with unit edge weights.
- network
Graph with extra weights, capacities, or flow data.
- connect
Add or witness a path between vertices.
- disconnect
Delete vertices or edges so connectivity fails.
- disjoint
Having empty intersection.
- finite
Having finite vertex and edge sets.
- infinite
Not finite.
- trivial
One vertex and no edge.
- anti-triangle
Independent set of size $3$.
- triangle
Cycle of length $3$.
- digon
Directed cycle of length $2$.
- hyperedge
Edge incident with any finite vertex subset.
- hyperarc
Directed hyperedge with tail set and head set.
- quiver
≡ directed graph.
Classes
- complete graph
$E$$=$$\binom V2$.
- Complete graphs
≡ complete graph.
- empty graph
$E$$=\emptyset$.
- null graph
≡ empty graph.
- edgeless graph
$E$$=\emptyset$.
- totally disconnected graph
≡ empty graph.
- totally disconnected
≡ empty graph.
- bipartite graph
≡ bipartite.
- complete bipartite graph
All crossings.
- Complete bipartite graphs
≡ complete bipartite graph.
- complete multipartite graph
Independent parts, complete cross edges.
- multipartite graph
Vertex partition with no edge inside one part.
- k-partite graph
$k$ parts.
- tripartite graph
$3$-partite graph.
- balanced k-partite graph
$k$ parts, sizes differ by at most $1$.
- equipartite graph
Multipartite graph with equal part sizes.
- connected graph
≡ connected.
- connected component
≡ component.
- disconnected graph
≡ disconnected.
- disconnected
Graph with at least two components.
- biconnected
Connected after deleting any one vertex.
- biconnected component
Maximal biconnected subgraph.
- bridgeless
Has no bridge.
- acyclic graph
Graph with no cycle.
- directed acyclic graph
≡ DAG.
- D-separation
Separation in a directed acyclic graphical model.
- regular graph
≡ regular.
- k-regular graph
Regular with degree $k$.
- cubic graph
≡ cubic.
- cubic
$3$-regular graph.
- biregular graph
≡ biregular.
- biregular
Bipartite with constant degree on each part.
- semiregular
≡ biregular.
- planar graph
≡ planar.
- plane graph
Planar with a fixed embedding.
- outerplanar graph
≡ outerplanar.
- outerplane graph
Outerplanar with a fixed embedding.
- outerplanar
Planar with all vertices on the outer face.
- outer
On the unbounded face of a plane graph.
- perfect graph
≡ perfect.
- split graph
≡ split.
- chordal graph
≡ chordal.
- chordal
Every cycle of length at least $4$ has a chord.
- cograph
Graph generated from one vertex by complement and disjoint union.
- threshold graph
Graph generated by adding isolated or universal vertices.
- interval graph
Intersection graph of intervals.
- indifference
Unit interval graph.
- comparability
Graph whose edges admit a transitive orientation.
- incomparability
Complement of a comparability graph.
- functional graph
Directed graph of a function $V$$\to $$V$.
- pseudoforest
Each component has at most one cycle.
- unicyclic graph
Connected with exactly one cycle.
- snark
Bridgeless cubic with chromatic index $4$.
- Snarks
≡ snark.
- tournament
Orientation of a complete graph.
- regular tournament
Tournament with $\deg^-=\deg^+$ at every vertex.
- traceable graph
≡ traceable.
- traceable
Graph containing a Hamiltonian path.
- Hamiltonian graph
Graph containing a Hamiltonian cycle.
- Hamiltonian connected graph
Every vertex pair has a Hamiltonian path.
- Eulerian digraph
Closed directed trail uses every arc.
- strongly regular graph
Regular with common-neighbor counts set by adjacency.
- Strongly regular graphs
≡ strongly regular graph.
- ultrahomogeneous graph
Partial isomorphisms extend to automorphisms.
- universal graph
Contains every graph in its class.
- quasi-line graph
Every neighborhood is two cliques.
- pancyclic graph
Graph with cycles of every length from $3$ to $|$$V$$|$.
- sparse
Has $O(|$$V$$|)$ or otherwise few edges in the stated class.
- Dense graph
Graph with edge count comparable to $|$$V$$|^2$.
- Sparse graph
≡ sparse.
- small-world network
Short distances plus high clustering.
- Scale-free network
Network with heavy-tailed degree distribution.
Families And Notation
- C_3
Cycle graph on $3$ vertices.
- C_4
Cycle graph on $4$ vertices.
- C_5
Cycle graph on $5$ vertices.
- C_6
Cycle graph on $6$ vertices.
- K_1
Complete graph on $1$ vertex.
- K_2
Complete graph on $2$ vertices.
- K_3
Complete graph on $3$ vertices.
- K_4
Complete graph on $4$ vertices.
- K_5
Complete graph on $5$ vertices.
- K_6
Complete graph on $6$ vertices.
- K_7
Complete graph on $7$ vertices.
- K_8
Complete graph on $8$ vertices.
- K_n
Complete graph on $n$ vertices.
- K_mn
Complete bipartite graph with part sizes $m,n$.
- K_{2,3}
Complete bipartite graph with part sizes $2,3$.
- K_{2,4}
Complete bipartite graph with part sizes $2,4$.
- K_{3,3}
Complete bipartite graph with part sizes $3,3$.
- K_{3,4}
Complete bipartite graph with part sizes $3,4$.
- utility graph
≡ $K_{3,3}$.
- cycle graph
Graph isomorphic to a cycle.
- path graph
Graph isomorphic to a path.
- star
Complete bipartite graph $K_{1,n}$.
- Star (graph theory)
≡ star.
- wheel graph
≡ wheel.
- Wheel graphs
≡ wheel.
- fan graph
Path plus one universal hub.
- friendship graph
Edge-disjoint triangles sharing one common vertex.
- Friendship graphs
≡ friendship graph.
- windmill graph
≡ windmill.
- ladder graph
Cartesian product $P_n$$\square$$ $$K_2$.
- hypercube
Graph on binary strings adjacent at Hamming distance $1$.
- Hypercube graph
≡ hypercube.
- Fibonacci cube
Hypercube induced by strings avoiding consecutive $1$s.
Walks Paths And Cycles
- directed path
Directed walk with distinct vertices.
- dipath
≡ directed path.
- directed cycle
Closed directed path.
- Cycles
≡ cycle.
- even cycle
Cycle of even length.
- odd cycle
Cycle of odd length.
- hole
Induced cycle of length at least $4$.
- chord
Edge joining nonconsecutive vertices of a cycle.
- length
Number of edges in a walk.
- length of a path or walk
≡ length.
- length of a cycle
Number of edges in a cycle.
- route
≡ walk.
- tour
Closed walk.
- Hamiltonian path
Path using every vertex.
- Hamiltonian cycle
Cycle using every vertex.
- Eulerian path
Trail using every edge.
- Eulerian cycle
Closed trail using every edge.
- Shortest path
Path of minimum length between fixed endpoints.
- Shortest path problem
Compute shortest paths in a weighted graph.
- geodesic
Shortest path.
- reachability
Existence of a directed path.
- reachable
Having a directed path from the source vertex.
- internal
Not an endpoint of the path under discussion.
- internally disjoint
Sharing no internal vertices.
- initial vertex
Tail or first vertex of a directed walk.
- terminal vertex
Head or last vertex of a directed walk.
- beginning
Initial vertex.
- end
Terminal vertex.
- ray
One-way infinite path.
Trees And Rooted Structures
- free tree
≡ tree.
- ordered tree
Rooted tree with ordered children.
- positional tree
Rooted tree whose child positions are named.
- binary tree
Rooted tree with at most two children per node.
- Binary search tree
Binary tree ordered by key.
- Full binary tree
Binary tree whose internal nodes have two children.
- k-ary tree
Rooted tree with at most $k$ children per node.
- k-ary
≡ k-ary tree.
- -ary
Arity suffix for rooted trees.
- Child node
≡ child.
- child
Vertex adjacent below its parent in a rooted tree.
- Parent node
≡ parent.
- parent
Neighbor immediately above a vertex in a rooted tree.
- Root node
≡ root.
- root
Distinguished vertex of a rooted tree.
- Root (graph theory)
≡ root.
- leaf
Vertex of a tree with no child.
- Leaf node
≡ leaf.
- branch
Root-to-leaf path or subtree at a child.
- depth
Distance from the root.
- height
Maximum depth below a node.
- level
Vertices of equal depth.
- Level structure
Partition by distance from a root.
- sibling
Vertices with the same parent.
- descendant
Vertex below another in the rooted order.
- subtree
Descendant tree or connected tree subgraph.
- subforest
Subgraph that is a forest.
- arborescence
Directed rooted tree with unique root paths.
- polytree
DAG whose underlying graph is a tree.
- Family tree
↝ rooted tree. Parent arcs encode descent.
- Evolutionary tree
↝ phylogenetic tree. Leaves encode taxa.
- tree data structure
↝ rooted tree. Records are vertices, pointers edges.
- Tree structure
↝ rooted tree. Containment gives the parent map.
- abstract syntax tree
↝ rooted tree. Operators internal, operands or tokens leaves.
- parse tree
↝ rooted tree. Productions internal, terminals leaves.
- Junction tree
Tree decomposition with running-intersection bags.
- tree decomposition
Tree-indexed bags cover vertices and edges with running intersection.
- treewidth
Minimum bag size minus $1$ over tree decompositions.
- path decomposition
Tree decomposition whose index tree is a path.
- pathwidth
Minimum width over path decompositions.
- branch-decomposition
Branching decomposition of edge or vertex separations.
- branchwidth
Minimum width over branch decompositions.
- SPQR tree
Decomposes a biconnected graph into triconnected components.
- clique tree
Tree of maximal cliques of a chordal.
- cotree
Tree of a cograph complement-union construction.
- cover tree
Metric tree for nearest-neighbor search.
Incidence And Parameters
- degree sequence
Nonincreasing sequence of vertex degrees.
- maximum degree
$\Delta($$G$$)=\max_{v\in V}$$\deg_G(v)$.
- clique number
$\omega($$G$$)$.
- independence number
$\alpha$$($$G$$)$.
- chromatic number
$\chi$$($$G$$)$.
- chromatic index
$\chi$$'($$G$$)$.
- matching number
Maximum matching size.
- density
$2|$$E$$|/(|$$V$$|(|$$V$$|-1))$ for simple $G$.
- Cheeger constant
Min boundary-to-volume ratio.
- expander
Sparse family with uniformly large expansion.
- expansion
Boundary growth of vertex sets.
- bandwidth
Minimum maximum label difference across edges.
- degeneracy
Maximum over subgraphs of their minimum degree.
- degenerate
Having bounded degeneracy in context.
- binding number
Minimum $|$$N$$(S)|/|S|$ over admissible vertex sets.
- dominating set
Vertex set meeting every closed neighborhood.
- dominating
Belonging to or defining a dominating set.
- dominate
A vertex dominates its closed neighborhood.
- domatic
Partition into dominating sets.
- eternal dominating set
Dominating set maintained under attacks.
- Wiener index of a graph
Sum of all vertex-pair distances.
- Wiener index of a vertex
Sum of distances from the vertex to all vertices.
- Wiener polynomial of an undirected graph
Distance-count polynomial.
- crossing number
Minimum number of edge crossings in a drawing.
- thickness
Minimum number of planar subgraphs whose union is $G$.
- strength
Minimum edge-density ratio defining graph strength.
- volume
Sum of degrees in the set under discussion.
- Node influence metric
Vertex-influence parameter.
Coloring
- color
Element assigned by a coloring.
- colored
Equipped with a coloring.
- proper
Adjacent objects receive distinct colors.
- chromatic
Concerning graph coloring.
- Edge coloring
Proper coloring of edges.
- n-edge colouring
Edge coloring with $n$ colors.
- n-vertex colouring
Vertex coloring with $n$ colors.
- Graph two-coloring
Proper vertex coloring with two colors.
- Acyclic coloring
Proper coloring whose two-color subgraphs are forests.
- Circular coloring
Cycle-valued coloring with separation constraints.
- Complete coloring
Coloring in which every color pair appears on an edge.
- achromatic
Maximum color count in a complete proper coloring.
- Exact coloring
Coloring using exactly the stated number of colors.
- Fractional coloring
Linear-program relaxation of vertex coloring.
- H-coloring
Homomorphism to $H$.
- H-free
Excludes $H$ by source containment.
- H-free graph
No specified copy of $H$.
- List coloring
Proper coloring from vertex color lists.
- List edge-coloring
Proper edge coloring from edge color lists.
- choosability
Minimum list size guaranteeing list coloring.
- choosable
Having the stated list-coloring property.
- Incidence coloring
Coloring incidences so adjacent incidences differ.
- Total coloring
Colors vertices and edges with incidence constraints.
- Strong coloring
Coloring meeting every part of a vertex partition.
- Subcoloring
Vertex coloring whose color classes induce cluster graphs.
- Cocoloring
Color classes are cliques or independent sets.
- Uniquely colorable graph
One proper coloring up to color permutation.
- Grundy number
Max greedy colors over vertex orders.
- Harmonious coloring
Each color pair appears on at most one edge.
- Graceful labeling
Vertex labeling inducing distinct edge labels.
- Graph labeling
Assignment of labels to vertices, edges, or both.
Cuts Separations And Minors
- cut set
Vertex or edge set whose deletion disconnects the graph.
- cut-set
≡ cut set.
- bond
Minimal nonempty edge cut.
- separating set
≡ cut set.
- separation number
Minimum size of a cut set of the stated kind.
- disconnecting set
≡ cut set.
- minimum cut
Cut of minimum capacity or cardinality.
- connectivity
Minimum vertex cut size.
- k-connected
≡ $k$-connected.
- k-edge-connected
≡ $k$-edge-connected.
- block
Maximal connected subgraph without a cut vertex.
- contraction
Identification of the endpoints of an edge.
- edge contraction
≡ contraction.
- vertex identification
Quotient merging specified vertices.
- identified
Vertex identification quotient.
- unidentified
No vertex identification quotient.
- topological
By subdividing or suppressing degree-$2$ vertices.
- core
Graph admitting no homomorphism to a proper subgraph.
- kernel
Absorbing independent set in a directed graph.
- absorbing
Every outside vertex has an arc to the set.
- transitive
Closed under directed reachability of length two.
- condensation
DAG of strongly connected components.
- strongly connected component
Maximal strongly connected subgraph.
- diconnected
Strongly connected in directed context.
Covers Quotients And Lifts
- fiber
Preimage of one base vertex.
- lift
≡ covering graph.
- h-lift
Covering graph with every fiber size $h$.
- double cover
Covering graph with every fiber size $2$.
- 2-fold cover
≡ double cover.
- bipartite double cover
$G$$\times$$ $$K_2$.
- universal covering graph
Tree covering graph of a connected graph.
- universal cover
≡ universal covering graph.
- universal covering
≡ universal covering graph.
- non-backtracking
Walk with no immediate edge reversal.
- covering transformation group
Automorphisms preserving the covering map.
- abelian covering graph
Covering graph with abelian covering transformation group.
- topological crystal
Infinite abelian covering graph of a finite multigraph.
- planar cover
Planar covering graph.
- voltage graph
Graph with group-labeled darts.
- dart
Oriented incidence of an edge.
- derived graph
Graph induced from a voltage graph and group states.
Automata Order And Stochastic Extensions
- transition system
States with transition relation.
- labeled transition system
Transition system with edge labels.
- finite automaton
Finite labeled transition system with start and accepting states.
- NFA
Finite automaton with set-valued next-state relation.
- DFA
Finite automaton with one next state for each state-symbol pair.
- regular language
Language accepted by a finite automaton.
- regular expression
Algebraic expression denoting a regular language.
- generalized regular expression
Regular expression extended by context-fixed regular operations.
- bisimulation
Relation between states matching labeled transitions both ways.
- bisimilarity
Equivalence induced by existence of a bisimulation.
- partition refinement
Splitting blocks until the stability predicate is constant on blocks.
- subgraph isomorphism
Injective isomorphism from a pattern graph to a subgraph.
- state graph
Graph whose vertices are states and edges are transitions.
- partial order
Reflexive antisymmetric transitive relation.
- poset
Set equipped with a partial order.
- lattice (order-theoretic)
Partial order with meet and join for every pair.
- lattice
≡ lattice (order-theoretic).
- Hasse diagram
Transitive-reduction drawing of a finite partial order.
- Laplacian
Degree diagonal matrix minus adjacency matrix.
- normalized Laplacian
Degree-normalized form of the Laplacian.
- stationary distribution
Probability vector fixed by a transition matrix.
- mixing time
Least time to reach the stated distance from stationarity.
- doubly stochastic
Nonnegative matrix with every row sum and column sum $1$.
- linear forest
Forest whose components are paths.
- biclique closure
In a bipartite graph, add every vertex complete to the opposite side.
Algorithms And Problems
- A* algorithm
Shortest-path search using $g+h$ priority.
- Ant colony algorithm
Pheromone-trail walk metaheuristic.
- Baum–Welch algorithm
EM for hidden Markov models.
- Bellman–Ford algorithm
SSSP allowing negative weights.
- Best-first search
Expands best-priority frontier vertex.
- Boruvka's algorithm
MST by cheapest outgoing component edges.
- Breadth-first search
Traversal by nondecreasing start distance.
- Depth-first search
Recursively explores an unvisited neighbor.
- Depth-limited search
Depth-first search with a maximum depth bound.
- Dijkstra's algorithm
SSSP for nonnegative weights.
- FKT algorithm
Counts planar perfect matchings by Pfaffian orientation.
- Flood fill
Search marking all vertices reachable under an adjacency rule.
- Flooding algorithm
Distributed broadcast along graph edges.
- Floyd–Warshall algorithm
Dynamic program for all-pairs shortest paths.
- Graph exploration algorithm
Discovers a graph by moving through it.
- Iterative deepening depth-first search
DFS with increasing depth bound.
- Kruskal's algorithm
MST by sorted cycle-free edges.
- Maximum-cardinality search
Orders by most numbered neighbors.
- Nearest neighbour algorithm
Greedy tour by nearest unvisited vertex.
- Prim's algorithm
MST grown by cheapest boundary edge.
- Spring-based algorithm
Force-directed drawing.
- Topological sorting
Linear order respecting DAG arcs.
- Tree search algorithm
Search over a rooted state tree.
- Tree traversal
Systematic visitation of rooted-tree vertices.
- Inorder traversal
Left subtree, node, right subtree.
- Pre-order traversal
Rooted-tree traversal visiting node before children.
- Post-order traversal
Rooted-tree traversal visiting children before node.
- Backward inorder traversal
Right subtree, node, left subtree.
- Euler tour technique
Turns subtree queries into interval queries.
- Viterbi algorithm
Dynamic program for the most likely hidden-state path.
- Canadian traveller problem
Shortest path with edges revealed en route.
- Clique problem
Decide or find a clique of specified size.
- Hamiltonian path problem
Decide whether a Hamiltonian path exists.
- Independent set problem
Decide or find a size-$k$ independent set.
- Traveling salesman problem
Minimum-weight Hamiltonian cycle problem.
- Bottleneck traveling salesman problem
Hamiltonian cycle minimizing max edge weight.
- Vertex cover problem
Decide or find a vertex set meeting every edge.
- Route inspection problem
Minimum closed walk covering all edges.
- Degree diameter problem
Max order for fixed degree and diameter.
- Museum guard problem
Visibility-cover problem for polygonal regions.
- Graph coloring game
Game of constrained color assignments.
- Shannon switching game
Two-player game on connecting or cutting a graph.
Represented Domains
↝ Bayesian network. State chain plus emissions.
- Mind map
↝ graph. Concepts vertices, associations edges.
- Knowledge representation
↝ conceptual graph. Symbols and relations encode facts.
- Logical graph
↝ graph. Graph syntax for logic.
- Existential graph
↝ Logical graph. Enclosures and cuts encode logic.
- Entitative graph
↝ Logical graph. Graph syntax for propositions.
- Cladistics
↝ phylogenetic tree. Leaves taxa, splits shared traits.
- Phenetics
↝ tree. Similarity induces clusters.
- Scientific classification
↝ rooted tree. Ranks form containment.
- Ahnentafel
↝ binary tree. Ancestor numbers follow parent positions.
- Decision tree
↝ rooted tree. Tests internal, outcomes leaves.
- Game tree
↝ rooted tree. States vertices, moves edges.
- Technology tree
↝ DAG. Dependencies order technologies.
- Fault tree
↝ rooted tree. Gates combine component failures.
- Suffix tree
↝ tree. Edges substrings, leaves suffixes.
- Trie
↝ tree. Root paths encode prefixes.
- Patricia trie
↝ Trie. Maximal unary paths are compressed.
- Heap
↝ tree. Parent keys ordered against child keys.
- Binary heap
↝ Heap. Shape is a complete binary tree.
- Binomial heap
↝ Heap. Forest of binomial trees.
- Fibonacci heap
↝ Heap. Lazy heap-ordered forest.
- 2-3 heap
↝ Heap. Heap using nodes of degree two or three.
- AVL tree
↝ Binary search tree. Child heights differ by at most one.
- Red–black tree
↝ Binary search tree. Colors enforce log height.
- Splay tree
↝ Binary search tree. Access rotates item to root.
- Self-balancing binary search tree
↝ Binary search tree. Rebalances to log height.
- B-tree
↝ tree. Multiway search tree with balanced leaves.
- B*-tree
↝ B-tree. Higher-occupancy variant.
- R-tree
↝ tree. Bounding rectangles index objects.
- Quadtree
↝ tree. Spatial nodes have four children.
- Octree
↝ tree. Spatial nodes have eight children.
- Kd-tree
↝ tree. Alternating coordinate splits.
- Binary space partitioning
↝ binary tree. Internal nodes split space.
- PQ tree
↝ tree. Leaves permute under P and Q constraints.
- T-tree
↝ tree. Ordered in-memory search tree.
Remaining Source Terms
- -flap
Subgraph attached across a small boundary in a separation.
- 20-fullerene
Fullerene graph on $20$ vertices.
- 24-fullerene
Fullerene graph on $24$ vertices.
- 26-fullerene graph
Fullerene graph on $26$ vertices.
- 60-fullerene
Fullerene graph on $60$ vertices.
- 70-fullerene
Fullerene graph on $70$ vertices.
- Adjacency algebra
Algebra generated by a graph adjacency matrix.
- Amalgamation
Gluing graphs along an identified subgraph.
- Andrásfai graph
Triangle-free circulant.
- Arrangement graph
Arrangements adjacent by swaps.
- Balaban 10-cage
Cubic $10$-cage.
- Balaban 11-cage
Cubic $11$-cage.
- Bidiakis cube
Cubic symmetric graph on $12$ vertices.
- Biggs–Smith graph
Cubic symmetric graph on $102$ vertices.
- Bivariegated graph
Edges split into perfect matching and cycles.
- Blanuša snark (first)
First Blanuša cubic snark.
- Blanuša snark (second)
Second Blanuša cubic snark.
- Book (graph theory)
Triangles sharing one common edge.
- Bouquet graph
One vertex with loops.
- Brinkmann graph
Brinkmann's named regular.
- Brouwer–Haemers graph
Strongly regular graph from Brouwer and Haemers.
- Bull graph
Triangle with two disjoint pendant edges.
- Butterfly graph
≡ butterfly.
- C
Cycle prefix or color set by context.
- Cage (graph theory)
≡ cage.
- Cameron graph
Strongly regular graph associated with Cameron.
- Cayley graph
Graph generated from a group and generator set.
- Cayley's formula
Number of labeled trees on $n$ vertices is $n^{n-2}$.
- Chromatic polynomial
Polynomial counting proper $q$-colorings.
- Chvátal graph
Triangle-free $4$-chromatic $4$-regular, $12$ vertices.
- Circle graph
Intersection graph of chords of a circle.
- Clebsch graph
Triangle-free strongly regular graph on $16$ vertices.
- Clique graph
Intersection graph of maximal cliques.
- Cliques
≡ clique.
- Cocktail party graph
Complete multipartite graph with parts of size $2$.
- Common graph
Random coloring minimizes monochromatic-copy density.
- Coxeter graph
Cubic symmetric graph on $28$ vertices.
- Critical graph
Graph minimal for losing a stated coloring property.
- Crown graph
$K_{n,n}$ with a perfect matching removed.
- Cube-connected cycles
Network replacing hypercube vertices by cycles.
- Cycle space
Vector space of Eulerian edge sets over $\mathbb F_2$.
- Dürer graph
Skeleton of Dürer's solid.
- De Bruijn graph
Directed graph of overlapping strings of fixed length.
- Desargues graph
Generalized Petersen graph $G$$(10,3)$.
- Diamond graph
≡ diamond.
- Dipole graph
Two vertices joined by parallel edges.
- Disperser
Bipartite with expansion against large subsets.
- Distance regular graph
Intersection numbers determined by distance.
- Distance-transitive graph
Aut transitive on vertex pairs at each distance.
- Dodecahedron
Skeleton graph of the dodecahedron.
- Double-star snark
Cubic snark obtained from two star-like components.
- Dual polyhedron
Vertices correspond to original faces.
- Dyck graph
Cubic symmetric graph on $32$ vertices.
- Edge-transitive graph
Automorphism group transitive on edges.
- Ellingham–Horton 54-graph
Ellingham-Horton cubic on $54$ vertices.
- Ellingham–Horton 78-graph
Ellingham-Horton cubic on $78$ vertices.
- Empty tree
Tree with no vertices.
- Entanglement (graph measure)
Game measure of directed cyclicity.
- Erdős–Gyárfás conjecture
Conjecture on power-of-two cycle lengths.
- Errera graph
Planar used in four-color-history counterexamples.
- Exponential tree
Rooted tree with exponentially changing level sizes.
- Extractor
Bipartite inducing randomness extraction.
- Extremal graph theory
Max or min graphs under constraints.
- Flower snark
Infinite family of cubic snarks.
- Folded cube graph
Quotient graph of a hypercube by antipodal identification.
- Folkman graph
Semisymmetric graph on $20$ vertices.
- Foster graph
Cubic symmetric graph on $90$ vertices.
- Four color theorem
Every planar is $4$-colorable.
- Frankl–Rödl graph
Forbidden-intersection graph family.
- Franklin graph
Cubic bipartite on $12$ vertices.
- Frequency partition
Partition by equal frequency or degree class.
- Frucht
Automorphism realization by graphs.
- Frucht graph
Cubic with trivial automorphism group.
- Frucht's theorem
Every finite group is a graph automorphism group.
- Fullerene graphs
Cubic planar with pentagonal and hexagonal faces.
- Gear
Wheel with a vertex inserted on each rim edge.
- Generalized Petersen graph
$G$$(n,k)$ with cycle, spokes, inner star polygon.
- Gewirtz graph
Strongly regular graph on $56$ vertices.
- Goldberg–Seymour conjecture
Chromatic-index conjecture for multigraphs.
- Goldner–Harary graph
Maximal planar on $11$ vertices.
- Golomb graph
Named small graph from Golomb.
- Grötzsch
Triangle-free planar are $3$-colorable.
- Grötzsch graph
Smallest triangle-free $4$-chromatic graph.
- Graph drawing
Geometric placement of vertices and edges.
- Graph homomorphism
≡ homomorphism.
- Graph partition
Partition of vertices or edges under graph constraints.
- Graph pebbling
Reachability game moving pebbles along edges with cost.
- Graph property
Isomorphism-invariant predicate on graphs.
- Graph reduction
Transformation to a smaller equivalent graph instance.
- Graph triangulation
Addition of edges to make a graph chordal.
- Graph-structured stack
Stack alternatives form a DAG.
- Graphon
Symmetric measurable function representing dense-graph limits.
- Grassmann graph
Subspaces adjacent by codimension-one intersection.
- Gray graph
Semisymmetric cubic on $54$ vertices.
- Hadwiger
No $K_t$ minor implies $(t-1)$-colorability conjecture.
- Half graph
Bipartite with nested neighborhoods.
- Hall–Janko graph
Strongly regular graph from the Hall-Janko group.
- Halved cube graph
One hypercube part, distance-$2$ adjacency.
- Hamming graph
Cartesian product of complete graphs.
- Hanoi graph
State graph of the Tower of Hanoi puzzle.
- Harries graph
Cubic symmetric graph on $70$ vertices.
- Harries–Wong graph
Cubic symmetric graph on $70$ vertices.
- Heawood graph
Incidence graph of the Fano plane.
- Hedgehog (hypergraph)
Hyperedges share a structured core.
- Helly family
Pairwise intersection implies total intersection.
- Helm
Wheel with a pendant edge at each cycle vertex.
- Henson graph
Countable homogeneous $K_n$-free graph.
- Herschel graph
Small non-Hamiltonian polyhedral graph.
- Hexagonal truncated trapezohedron graph
Its polyhedron skeleton.
- Higman–Sims graph
Strongly regular graph from the Higman-Sims group.
- Hoffman graph
Graph with Hoffman-style vertex labeling or spectral role.
- Hoffman–Singleton graph
Moore graph of degree $7$ and diameter $2$.
- Hofman Graph H(12,4)
Named Hoffman graph $H$$(12,4)$.
- Holt graph
Smallest half-transitive graph.
- Horton graph
Cubic used in Hamiltonicity counterexamples.
- Icosahedron
Skeleton graph of the icosahedron.
- Intersection (Line) Graphs of hypergraphs
Hyperedges adjacent when intersecting.
- Johnson graph
Graph on $k$-subsets adjacent by one-element exchange.
- Kőnig's lemma
Infinite finitely branching tree has an infinite path.
- Kautz graph
Strings with unequal adjacent symbols, shift adjacency.
- Keller's conjecture
Cube tiling conjecture via Keller graphs.
- King's graph
Chess king move graph on a board.
- Kittell graph
Small hypohamiltonian graph.
- Klein graph
Cubic symmetric graph associated with the Klein quartic.
- Kneser graph
Graph on $k$-subsets adjacent when disjoint.
- Knight's graph
Chess knight move graph on a board.
- Knight's tour
Hamiltonian path or cycle in a knight's graph.
- Labyrinth
Maze represented as a graph.
- Laws of Form
Diagrammatic calculus representable by graphs.
- Line graph
≡ line.
- Link popularity
Directed-link count or centrality in a Web.
- Ljubljana graph
Cubic symmetric graph on $112$ vertices.
- Lobster
Tree whose non-leaf deletion yields a caterpillar.
- Local McLaughlin graph
McLaughlin local SRG.
- Lollipop graph
Clique joined to a path by a bridge.
- Loupekine snark (first)
First Loupekine cubic snark.
- Loupekine snark (second)
Second Loupekine cubic snark.
- Möbius ladder
Cycle with opposite vertices joined.
- Möbius–Kantor graph
Generalized Petersen graph $G$$(8,3)$.
- Mac Lane's planarity criterion
Planar iff cycle space has sparse basis.
- Markström graph
Small $4$-regular graph with no short cycles.
- Max flow min cut theorem
Maximum flow value equals minimum cut capacity.
- Maze
↝ graph. Cells are vertices and passages are edges.
- Maze generation algorithm
Builds a spanning-tree passage graph.
- McGee graph
Unique cubic $7$-cage.
- McKay–Miller–Širán graph
Finite-field degree-diameter graph.
- Meredith graph
Cubic used in coloring and connectivity examples.
- Meyniel
Every odd cycle of length at least $5$ has at least two chords.
- Minimum spanning tree
Spanning tree of minimum total edge weight.
- Moore graph
Regular attaining the Moore bound.
- Moser spindle
Unit-distance graph requiring four colors.
- N
Neighborhood operator or natural-number parameter by context.
- Nauru graph
Generalized Petersen graph $G$$(12,5)$.
- Neighbor-joining
Builds phylogenetic trees from distances.
- Nested triangles graph
Recursively nested triangle graph.
- Octahedron
Skeleton graph of the octahedron.
- Odd graph
Kneser graph $K$$(2k-1,k-1)$.
- Open Shortest Path First
Routing by shortest paths.
- Pairwise compatibility graph
Leaf graph under tree-distance bounds.
- Paley graph
Graph over a finite field with quadratic-residue adjacencies.
- Pancake graph
Cayley graph of permutations generated by prefix reversals.
- Pappus graph
Levi graph of the Pappus configuration.
- Path analysis (paths and cycles)
Study of paths and cycles in a graph.
- Perfect order
Greedy-optimal order on every induced subgraph.
- Perkel graph
Distance-regular graph on $57$ vertices.
- Petersen
Kneser graph $K$$(5,2)$.
- Petersen graph
≡ Petersen.
- Platonic solids
Skeleton graphs of the five regular convex polyhedra.
- Poussin graph
Planar used in four-color-history counterexamples.
- Pre-topological order
Order compatible with preorder or reachability.
- Queen's graph
Chess queen move graph on a board.
- Rado graph
Countable random graph.
- Ramanujan
$d$-regular with nontrivial eigenvalue $\lambda$ satisfying $|$$\lambda$$|\le2\sqrt{d-1}$.
- Ramsey's theorem
Large structures contain homogeneous substructures.
- Random graph
Probability distribution on graphs.
- Reconstruction conjecture
Graphs with $|$$V$$|\ge3$ are determined by decks.
- Recursive tree
New vertices attach to older vertices.
- Robertson graph
Small named graph of Robertson.
- Robertson–Seymour theorem
Minor-closed classes have finite forbidden minors.
- Rook's graph
Cartesian product of two complete graphs.
- Schläfli graph
Strongly regular graph on $27$ vertices.
- Semi-symmetric graphs
Regular edge-transitive, not vertex-transitive.
- Seven Bridges of Königsberg
Eulerian-trail problem on its multigraph.
- Shannon multigraph
Three-vertex multigraph extremal for edge coloring.
- Shrikhande graph
SRG on $\mathbb Z_4^2$ with six generators.
- Shuffle-exchange network
Uses shuffle and exchange links.
- Sierpinski graph
Recursive gasket-address graph.
- Snark (graph theory)
≡ snark.
- Sousselier graph
Hypohamiltonian graph of Sousselier.
- Sparse graph code
Code represented by a sparse bipartite.
- Spectral graph theory
Graphs via matrix eigenvalues.
- Sperner's lemma
Labeled triangulation lemma implying fixed-point results.
- Square brackets [ ]
Closed interval or grouping notation.
- Steiner tree
Minimum connected subgraph spanning required terminals.
- String graph
Intersection graph of curves in the plane.
- Sudoku graph
Graph whose proper colorings encode Sudoku constraints.
- Sylvester graph
Strongly regular graph associated with Sylvester.
- Symmetric graphs
Arc-transitive graphs.
- Szekeres snark
Cubic snark on $50$ vertices.
- Tadpole graph
Cycle graph joined to a path.
- Tait's conjecture
Hamiltonian-cycle conjecture for cubic polyhedral graphs.
- Thomsen graph
Complete bipartite graph $K_{3,3}$.
- Three-cottage problem
Puzzle equivalent to $K_{3,3}$ nonplanarity.
- Tietze graph
Cubic related to Petersen by expansion.
- Total graph
Vertices are $V(G)$$\cup $$E(G)$ with adjacency or incidence.
- Tree (descriptive set theory)
Prefix-closed set of finite sequences.
- Tree (set theory)
Poset with well-ordered predecessor sets.
- Tree rotation
Local parent-child swap.
- Trellis (graph)
Layered graph used for paths through state sequences.
- Truncated cube
Skeleton graph of the truncated cube.
- Truncated dodecahedron
Skeleton graph of the truncated dodecahedron.
- Truncated icosahedron
Skeleton graph of the truncated icosahedron.
- Truncated octahedron
Skeleton graph of the truncated octahedron.
- Truncated solids
Skeleton graphs of truncated polyhedra.
- Truncated tetrahedron
Skeleton graph of the truncated tetrahedron.
- Turán
Complete multipartite with balanced parts.
- Turán graph
≡ Turán.
- Turán number
Maximum edges in an $H$-free graph on $n$ vertices.
- Turán's theorem
$K_{r+1}$-free edge maximum is Turán.
- Tutte 12-cage
Cubic $12$-cage.
- Tutte graph
Non-Hamiltonian cubic polyhedral graph.
- Tutte's fragment
Fragment used to build the Tutte graph.
- Tutte–Coxeter graph
Cubic symmetric $8$-cage.
- Vertex-transitive graph
Automorphism group transitive on vertices.
- Visibility graph
Graph joining mutually visible geometric objects.
- Vizing
For simple $G$, $\Delta$$\le$$\chi$$'\le$$\Delta$$+1$.
- Wagner
Planarity and minor theory associated with Wagner's theorem.
- Wagner graph
Möbius ladder on $8$ vertices.
- Watkins snark
Cubic snark of Watkins.
- Web
Web-like graph family or directed hyperlink graph.
- Wells graph
Distance-regular graph on $32$ vertices.
- Wiener–Araya graph
Hypohamiltonian graph with Wiener-Araya construction.
- Young–Fibonacci graph
Graded graph on Young-Fibonacci words.
- alternating
Alternating between two types along a walk or cycle.
- antichain
Set of mutually incomparable elements.
- apex
Vertex whose deletion gives a graph in the stated class.
- augmenting
Improving by an alternating path or similar exchange.
- bag
Vertex subset in a decomposition.
- balanced
Parts or degrees differ by at most one.
- ball
Vertices within a fixed distance of a center.
- bipartite wheels
Bipartite wheel-like graph family.
- book
Triangles sharing one common edge.
- boundary
Vertices or edges crossing from a set to its complement.
- bramble
Touching connected subgraphs certifying treewidth.
- butterfly
Two triangles sharing one vertex.
- cactus
Graph in which any two cycles share at most one vertex.
- cage
Regular of minimum order for given degree and girth.
- canonical
Chosen representative invariant under isomorphism.
- canonization
Computation of a canonical representative.
- card
One vertex-deleted subgraph in a reconstruction deck.
- carving width
Width of an edge-separation decomposition.
- caterpillar
Tree whose leaf deletion leaves a path.
- center
Vertices of minimum eccentricity.
- centroid
Deletion leaves no component larger than half the tree.
- chain
Totally ordered path-like substructure.
- cherry
Two leaves with the same parent.
- chi0(G)
Achromatic number notation.
- circle
Cycle or circular intersection domain by context.
- class
Isomorphism-closed graph collection.
- claw
Complete bipartite graph $K_{1,3}$.
- clique-width
Min labels for labeled graph construction.
- closed
Includes the relevant endpoints or closure operation.
- co-
Complement-class prefix.
- cogwheels
Wheel-like graph family with alternating attachments.
- commuting graph
Graph joining group elements that commute.
- complement
Graph on $V$ with edge set $\binom V2$$\setminus$$ $$E$.
- cone
Join of a graph with one new universal vertex.
- cover
Family of subobjects whose union contains the target.
- crossing
Interior intersection of drawn edges.
- cube
≡ hypercube.
- cut space
Vector space generated by graph cuts over $\mathbb F_2$.
- de Bruijn sequences
Cyclic strings containing each length-$k$ word once.
- deck
Multiset of vertex-deleted cards.
- diagram
Graphical representation of a relation or structure.
- diamond
$K_4$ minus one edge.
- direct predecessor
Parent or previous vertex in a directed order.
- direct successor
Child or immediate next vertex in a directed order.
- direction
Orientation assigned to an edge.
- dissociation number
Max vertex set inducing degree at most $1$.
- dodecahedral graph
≡ Dodecahedron.
- ear
Path whose internal vertices are new and endpoints are old.
- ear decomposition
Sequence adding ears to build a graph.
- embeddable
Having an embedding in the stated surface or host.
- enumeration
Counting or listing graphs in a class.
- even
Divisible by $2$.
- factor
Spanning subgraph.
- factorization
Partition of edges into factors.
- family
Parameterized graph class.
- first order
Logic over vertices with quantification over elements only.
- forbidden
Excluded subgraph, induced subgraph, minor, or pattern.
- forcing graph
Graph gadget enforcing choices in reductions.
- free edge
Edge incident with an unconstrained or free vertex.
- free vertex
Vertex not constrained by the current matching or embedding.
- full
Contains all allowed edges under the stated rule.
- gear graph
≡ Gear.
- giant
Component with order linear in the random graph.
- graph invariant
Isomorphism-invariant graph value.
- greedy
Algorithm making a locally optimal admissible choice.
- haven
Maps small vertex sets to connected large sides.
- helm graph
≡ Helm.
- hereditary
Closed under induced subgraphs.
- hexagon
Cycle of length $6$.
- homomorphic
Preserved by a graph homomorphism.
- homomorphic equivalence
Homomorphisms exist in both directions.
- hypo-
Prefix meaning deletion of one vertex has the property.
- improper
Violating the proper coloring separation condition.
- in-neighborhood
Vertices with arcs into the vertex.
- independent
≡ independent set.
- induced
Contains exactly all edges of $G$ on the chosen vertices.
- inductive
Defined or proved by vertex deletion or construction order.
- intersection
Common elements of sets or subgraphs.
- interval
Ordered or geometric interval used as a vertex model.
- invariant
≡ graph invariant.
- inverted arrow
Reversed directed edge symbol.
- isolated
Having degree $0$.
- isolated vertex
Vertex of degree $0$.
- isomorphic
Related by an isomorphism.
- isoperimetric
Concerning minimum boundary size for given volume.
- k-clique
Clique of size $k$.
- k-colorable graph
Graph with a proper $k$-coloring.
- k-factor
Spanning $k$-regular subgraph.
- k-spanner
Spanning distance approximator.
- k-th power
Distance power.
- knot
Vertex or crossing unit in an embedded diagram.
- label
Value assigned to a vertex, edge, or incidence.
- line
Edge, arc, or line graph by context.
- linkage
Collection of vertex-disjoint paths joining prescribed pairs.
- list
Assigned allowable color set.
- lobster graph
≡ Lobster.
- local
Restricted to a neighborhood or bounded-radius subgraph.
- magnification
Replace vertices by sets and edges by complete joins.
- median
Vertex lying on shortest paths among triples in median graphs.
- modular
Distance identity satisfying modular graph conditions.
- monotone
Preserved under specified additions or deletions.
- odd
Not divisible by $2$.
- open
Excluding the base vertex or boundary element.
- oriented
Orientation of a simple.
- out-neighborhood
Vertices reached by arcs leaving the vertex.
- outer face
Unbounded face of a plane graph.
- partite set
One block of a multipartite vertex partition.
- pendant
Incident with a leaf.
- perfect
$\chi$$($$H$$)=\omega($$H$$)$ for every induced $H$.
- perfect matching
Matching covering every vertex.
- peripheral
Having eccentricity equal to graph diameter.
- peripheral vertex
≡ peripheral.
- power
Graph joining vertices within a bounded distance.
- predecessor
Earlier vertex in a rooted or directed order.
- property
≡ Graph property.
- quasi-random graph sequence
Sequence with equivalent random-like properties.
- recognizable
Definable by a finite algebraic or logical graph expression.
- reconstruction
Recovery of a graph from its deck.
- rectangle
Four-cycle or rectangular grid cell by context.
- reverse
Reversal of all arcs or of a directed walk.
- saturated
Edge-maximal subject to avoiding a forbidden graph.
- searching number
Minimum searchers needed to clear a graph.
- second order
Logic allowing quantification over vertex or edge sets.
- simplicial vertex
Vertex whose neighborhood is a clique.
- sink
Vertex with out-degree $0$.
- source
Vertex with in-degree $0$.
- space
Ambient set of graph objects or embeddings.
- spanner
≡ $k$-spanner.
- spanning
Using all vertices.
- spanning matching
Matching in a spanning subgraph context.
- spanning tree
Tree spanning all vertices.
- spectral
Concerning eigenvalues of graph matrices.
- spectrum
Multiset of eigenvalues of a graph matrix.
- split
Vertices partition into a clique and an independent set.
- square
Cycle of length $4$ or graph square by context.
- square bracket
≡ Square brackets {[} {]}.
- stable
≡ independent set.
- strong
Directed or coloring strength property fixed by context.
- successor
Later vertex in a rooted or directed order.
- superconcentrator
DAG with disjoint paths between equal-size input and output sets.
- supergraph
Graph containing another graph as a subgraph.
- theta
Union of three internally disjoint paths with common endpoints.
- theta graph
≡ theta.
- truncated icosahedral graph
≡ Truncated icosahedron.
- twin
Vertices with equal open or closed neighborhoods.
- unary vertex
Vertex with one child in a rooted tree.
- uniform
Hypergraph whose edges have equal size.
- universal
Adjacent to every other vertex.
- web graph
≡ Web.
- weight
Numerical value assigned to graph elements.
- weight of a subgraph
Sum of weights of its selected elements.
- weighted
Equipped with weights.
- weighted graph
Graph with vertex or edge weights.
- well-colored
Graph whose greedy colorings use a fixed number of colors.
- well-covered
Graph whose maximal independent sets have equal size.
- wheel
Cycle plus one universal hub.
- width
Maximum bag size or separation order in a decomposition.
- windmill
Edge-disjoint cliques sharing one common vertex.
Synonyms
- node
≡ vertex.
- vertices
≡ vertex.
- point
≡ vertex.
- link
≡ edge.
- undirected edge
≡ edge.
- edges
≡ edge.
- neighbour
≡ neighbor.
- neighbourhood
≡ neighborhood.
- digraph
≡ directed graph.
- directed arc
≡ arc.
- directed edge
≡ arc.
- directed line
≡ arc.
- arrow
≡ arc.
- in degree
≡ in-degree.
- out degree
≡ out-degree.
- circuit
≡ cycle.
- self-loop
≡ loop.
- multiple edges
≡ multiple edge.
- valency
≡ degree.
- isthmus
≡ bridge.
- cut edge
≡ bridge.
- articulation point
≡ cut vertex.
- cut point
≡ cut vertex.
- separating vertex
≡ cut vertex.
- stable set
≡ independent set.
- staset
≡ independent set.
- anti-edge
≡ non-edge.
- biclique
≡ complete bipartite graph.
- Eulerian circuit
≡ Eulerian cycle.
- Eulerian tour
≡ Eulerian cycle.
- Eulerian trail
≡ Eulerian path.
- traceable path
≡ Hamiltonian path.
- Tree (graph theory)
≡ tree.
- Path (graph theory)
≡ path.
- Matching (graph theory)
≡ matching.
- Complement of a graph
≡ complement.
- A-star search algorithm
≡ A* algorithm.
- proper vertex colouring
≡ proper coloring.
- proper edge colouring
≡ proper coloring.
Representations
- adjacency matrix
↝ graph. $M_{uv}=|\{e:\partial e=\{u,v\}\}|$.
- incidence matrix
↝ graph. $B_{v,e}=$$m_{\partial e}(v)$.
- adjacency list
↝ graph. Map $v\mapsto $$N_G(v)$.
- graphical model
↝ graph. Vertices are variables. Edges or arcs encode dependence constraints.
- Bayesian network
↝ directed graph. Acyclic graphical model with arcs encoding factorization order.
- Markov random field
↝ graphical model. Undirected Markov dependence graph.
- conceptual graph
↝ graph. Labeled concept-relation graph.
- phylogenetic tree
↝ tree. Leaf-labeled ancestry tree.