• 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    the graph is planar, then it is often convenient to draw it without any edge intersections; that is, in this case, a graph drawing represents a graph embedding...
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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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 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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  • 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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    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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    is planar, together imply that the planar graphs are (3,6)-sparse. However, not every (3,6)-sparse graph is planar. Similarly, outerplanar graphs are...
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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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  • 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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    vertices is 1. If a path graph occurs as a subgraph of another graph, it is a path in that graph. A planar graph is a graph whose vertices and edges can...
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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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  • 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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    proved in 1975 that it was the smallest non-Hamiltonian maximal planar graph. The same graph had already been given as an example of a non-Hamiltonian simplicial...
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    if a topological graph is 2-quasi-planar, then it is a planar graph. It follows from Euler's polyhedral formula that every planar graph with n > 2 vertices...
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    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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  • In graph theory, Mac Lane's planarity criterion is a characterisation of planar graphs in terms of their cycle spaces, named after Saunders Mac Lane who...
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