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The no-three-in-line drawing of a complete graph is a special case of this result with =. [12] The no-three-in-line problem also has applications to another problem in discrete geometry, the Heilbronn triangle problem. In this problem, one must place points, anywhere in a unit square, not restricted to a grid. The goal of the placement is to ...
The case of exact graph matching is known as the graph isomorphism problem. [1] The problem of exact matching of a graph to a part of another graph is called subgraph isomorphism problem. Inexact graph matching refers to matching problems when exact matching is impossible, e.g., when the number of vertices in the two graphs are different. In ...
The Hosoya index of a graph G, its number of matchings, is used in chemoinformatics as a structural descriptor of a molecular graph. It may be evaluated as m G (1) ( Gutman 1991 ). The third type of matching polynomial was introduced by Farrell (1980) as a version of the "acyclic polynomial" used in chemistry .
A matching M of a graph G is maximal if every edge in G has a non-empty intersection with at least one edge in M. The following figure shows examples of maximal matchings (red) in three graphs. A maximum matching (also known as maximum-cardinality matching [2]) is a matching that contains the largest possible number of edges. There may be many ...
Some of the local methods assume that the graph admits a perfect matching; if this is not the case, then some of these methods might run forever. [1]: 3 A simple technical way to solve this problem is to extend the input graph to a complete bipartite graph, by adding artificial edges with very large weights. These weights should exceed the ...
In computer science, a graph is an abstract data type that is meant to implement the undirected graph and directed graph concepts from the field of graph theory within mathematics. A graph data structure consists of a finite (and possibly mutable) set of vertices (also called nodes or points ), together with a set of unordered pairs of these ...
For graphs of constant arboricity, such as planar graphs (or in general graphs from any non-trivial minor-closed graph family), this algorithm takes O (m) time, which is optimal since it is linear in the size of the input. [18] If one desires only a single triangle, or an assurance that the graph is triangle-free, faster algorithms are possible.
A multigraph with multiple edges (red) and several loops (blue). Not all authors allow multigraphs to have loops. In mathematics, and more specifically in graph theory, a multigraph is a graph which is permitted to have multiple edges (also called parallel edges [1]), that is, edges that have the same end nodes.