Graphs in graph theory

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English: Some of the finite structures considered in graph theory have names, sometimes inspired by the graph's topology, and sometimes after their discoverer. A famous example is the Petersen graph, a concrete graph on 10 vertices that appears as a minimal example or counterexample in many different contexts.[1]

Individual graphs

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Highly symmetric graphs

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Strongly regular graphs

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The strongly regular graph on v vertices and rank k is usually denoted srg(v,k,λ,μ).

Symmetric graphs

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A symmetric graph is one in which there is a symmetry (graph automorphism) taking any ordered pair of adjacent vertices to any other ordered pair; the Foster census lists all small symmetric 3-regular graphs. Every strongly regular graph is symmetric, but not vice versa.

Semi-symmetric graphs

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Graph families

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Complete graphs

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The complete graph on vertices is often called the -clique and usually denoted , from German komplett.[2]

Complete bipartite graphs

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The complete bipartite graph is usually denoted . The graph equals the 4-cycle (the square) introduced below.

Cycles

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The cycle graph on vertices is called the n-cycle and usually denoted . It is also called a cyclic graph, a polygon or the n-gon. Special cases are the triangle , the square , and then several with Greek naming pentagon , hexagon , etc.

Friendship graphs

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The friendship graph Fn can be constructed by joining n copies of the cycle graph C3 with a common vertex.[3]

The friendship graphs F2, F3 and F4.

Fullerene graphs

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In graph theory, the term fullerene refers to any 3-regular, planar graph with all faces of size 5 or 6 (including the external face). It follows from Euler's polyhedron formula, (where indicate the number of vertices, edges, and faces), that there are exactly 12 pentagons in a fullerene and hexagons. Fullerene graphs are the Schlegel representations of the corresponding fullerene compounds.

Platonic solids

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The complete graph on four vertices forms the skeleton of the tetrahedron, and more generally the complete graphs form skeletons of simplices. The hypercube graphs are also skeletons of higher dimensional regular polytopes.

Truncated Platonic solids

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Snarks

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A snark is a bridgeless cubic graph that requires four colors in any edge coloring. The smallest snark is the Petersen graph, already listed above.

Star

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A star Sk is the complete bipartite graph K1,k. The star S3 is called the claw graph.

The star graphs S3, S4, S5 and S6.

Wheel

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The wheel graph Wn is a graph on n vertices constructed by connecting a single vertex to every vertex in an (n-1)-cycle.

Wheels .

References

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  1. Gallery initially copied here from the English Wikipedia en:Gallery of named graphs, started there by en:User:Arbor on 16 June 2006
  2. David Gries and Fred B. Schneider, A Logical Approach to Discrete Math, Springer, 1993, p 436.
  3. Gallian, J. A. "Dynamic Survey DS6: Graph Labeling." Electronic J. Combinatorics, DS6, 1-58, Jan. 3, 2007. [1].