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A complete bipartite graph of K 4,7 showing that Turán's brick factory problem with 4 storage sites (yellow spots) and 7 kilns (blue spots) requires 18 crossings (red dots) For any k, K 1,k is called a star. [2] All complete bipartite graphs which are trees are stars. The graph K 1,3 is called a claw, and is used to define the claw-free graphs ...
The complete graph on n vertices is denoted by K n.Some sources claim that the letter K in this notation stands for the German word komplett, [4] but the German name for a complete graph, vollständiger Graph, does not contain the letter K, and other sources state that the notation honors the contributions of Kazimierz Kuratowski to graph theory.
In graph theory, a part of mathematics, a k-partite graph is a graph whose vertices are (or can be) partitioned into k different independent sets. Equivalently, it is a graph that can be colored with k colors, so that no two endpoints of an edge have the same color. When k = 2 these are the bipartite graphs, and when k = 3 they are called the ...
In graph theory, an outerplanar graph is a graph that has a planar drawing for which all vertices belong to the outer face of the drawing. Outerplanar graphs may be characterized (analogously to Wagner's theorem for planar graphs) by the two forbidden minors K 4 and K 2,3, or by their Colin de Verdière graph invariants. They have Hamiltonian ...
A partition of the complete bipartite graph K 4,4 into three forests, showing that it has arboricity three. The Thue number of a graph is the number of colors required in an edge coloring meeting the stronger requirement that, in every even-length path, the first and second halves of the path form different sequences of colors.
When modelling relations between two different classes of objects, bipartite graphs very often arise naturally. For instance, a graph of football players and clubs, with an edge between a player and a club if the player has played for that club, is a natural example of an affiliation network, a type of bipartite graph used in social network analysis.
The 7 cycles of the wheel graph W 4. For odd values of n, W n is a perfect graph with chromatic number 3: the vertices of the cycle can be given two colors, and the center vertex given a third color. For even n, W n has chromatic number 4, and (when n ≥ 6) is not perfect. W 7 is the only wheel graph that is a unit distance graph in the ...
Regular graphs of degree at most 2 are easy to classify: a 0-regular graph consists of disconnected vertices, a 1-regular graph consists of disconnected edges, and a 2-regular graph consists of a disjoint union of cycles and infinite chains. A 3-regular graph is known as a cubic graph.