In graph theory, a planar graph is a graph that can be embedded in the plane, i.e., it can be drawn on the plane in such a way that its edges intersect...
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In topological graph theory, a 1-planar graph is a graph that can be drawn in the Euclidean plane in such a way that each edge has at most one crossing...
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mathematical discipline of graph theory, the dual graph of a planar graph G is a graph that has a vertex for each face of G. The dual graph has an edge for each...
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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...
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no two adjacent edges are of the same color, and a face coloring of a planar graph assigns a color to each face (or region) so that no two faces that share...
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Four color theorem (category Statements about planar graphs)
terms of graph theory, by considering it in terms of constructing a graph coloring of the planar graph of adjacencies between regions. In graph-theoretic...
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graph theory, a planar straight-line graph (or straight-line plane graph, or plane straight-line graph), in short PSLG, is an embedding of a planar graph...
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In graph theory, an st-planar graph is a bipolar orientation of a plane graph for which both the source and the sink of the orientation are on the outer...
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The theory of graph minors began with Wagner's theorem that a graph is planar if and only if its minors include neither the complete graph K5 nor the complete...
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In graph theory, the planarity testing problem is the algorithmic problem of testing whether a given graph is a planar graph (that is, whether it can...
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Three utilities problem (redirect from Thomsen graph)
a graph embedding in the plane. The impossibility of the puzzle corresponds to the fact that K 3 , 3 {\displaystyle K_{3,3}} is not a planar graph. Multiple...
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graph is planar (can be drawn without crossings in the plane) if and only if it does not contain either of two forbidden graphs, the complete graph K5...
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Book embedding (category Topological graph theory)
In graph theory, a book embedding is a generalization of planar embedding of a graph to embeddings in a book, a collection of half-planes all having the...
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Vizing's theorem (redirect from Vizing's planar graph conjecture)
path of two adjacent edges. In Vizing's planar graph conjecture, Vizing (1965) states that all simple, planar graphs with maximum degree six or seven are...
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and to find graph drawings with high angular resolution. Both the chromatic number and the degeneracy of the kth power of a planar graph of maximum degree...
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every wheel graph is a Halin graph. They are self-dual: the planar dual of any wheel graph is an isomorphic graph. Every maximal planar graph, other than...
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Hamiltonian path (redirect from Hamiltonian graph)
vertices in the whole graph. Theorem—A 4-connected planar triangulation has a Hamiltonian cycle. Theorem—A 4-connected planar graph has a Hamiltonian cycle...
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apex graph is a graph in which one vertex can be removed, leaving a planar subgraph. The removed vertex is called the apex. A k-apex graph is a graph that...
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Edge coloring (category Graph coloring)
either its maximum degree Δ or Δ+1. For some graphs, such as bipartite graphs and high-degree planar graphs, the number of colors is always Δ, and for multigraphs...
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planar graphs in graph theory; these are graphs that can be embedded in the Euclidean plane so that no edges intersect. By Fáry's theorem, if a graph...
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In graph theory, the thickness of a graph G is the minimum number of planar graphs into which the edges of G can be partitioned. That is, if there exists...
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the planar separator theorem can be used to show that n-vertex planar graphs have universal graphs with O(n3/2) edges, and that bounded-degree planar graphs...
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Erdős–Gyárfás conjecture (redirect from Erdös conjecture (graph theory))
special case of 3-connected cubic planar graphs (Heckman & Krakovski 2013) Weaker results relating the degree of a graph to unavoidable sets of cycle lengths...
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polyhedron. Alternatively, in purely graph-theoretic terms, the polyhedral graphs are the 3-vertex-connected, planar graphs. The Schlegel diagram of a convex...
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theorem that planar triangle-free graphs are 3-colorable. The Grötzsch graph is a member of an infinite sequence of triangle-free graphs, each the Mycielskian...
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graph of small chessboards, other drawings lead to even fewer crossings; in particular every 2 × n {\displaystyle 2\times n} king's graph is a planar...
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bipartite graph, testing whether it contains a complete bipartite subgraph Ki,i for a parameter i is an NP-complete problem. A planar graph cannot contain...
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Knot (mathematics) (redirect from Knots and graphs)
at these crossings. In graph theory terms, a regular projection of a knot, or knot diagram is thus a quadrivalent planar graph with over/under-decorated...
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In graph theory, the planar separator theorem is a form of isoperimetric inequality for planar graphs, that states that any planar graph can be split...
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Kuratowski's theorem (redirect from Kuratowski graph)
In graph theory, Kuratowski's theorem is a mathematical forbidden graph characterization of planar graphs, named after Kazimierz Kuratowski. It states...
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