Graph Theoey Flashcards
Basic definitions
Simple graph
A finite, non-empty set V(G) of elements called vertices, together with a possibly empty set E(G) of 2-element subsets of V(G), called edges where uv denotes the egde between a vertex u eV(G) and vertex v eV(G)
Order
Number of vertices, p
Size
Number of edges, q
Density
Relationship between number of edges and number of possible edges
q(G) /(p(G)c2)
Multigraph
More than 1 edge between vertices
Pseudograph
Contains a loop
Open neighbourhood
All vertices surrounding a vertex Ng(v)
Closed Neighbourhood
All vertices surrounding the vertex and the vertex itself Ng[V]
Incident
Edge and vertex are touching
Degree
DegG(Vi) number of vertices adjacent to vertex i
Isolated vertex
Degree 0
End vertex
Degree 1
Even vertex
Even degree, include isolated vertices
Minimum degree
Lowest degree of a vertex small delta
Maximum degree
Maximum degree of a vertex big delta
Fundamental thm of graph theory (thm 2.1)
S(from 1 to p) deg(vi) =2q
Corollary of 2.1
Every graph has an even number of odd vertices
Subgraph
V(H) is a subset of V(G) and E(H) is a sunset of E(G)
Propper subgraph
Can’t be exactly the same
Spanning subgraph
Vertices exactly the same, but not all edges
are there
Edge induced subgraph
G non empty subset T is a subset of E(G) and vertex set V()
(no isolated vertices)
Walk
Finite alternating sequence of vertices and edges from v1 to vn
Path
A walk with no repeated vertices (therefore no repeated edges)
Distance
dG1(vi, vj) shortest path between the two vertices
Cycle
Path where you end where you started
Acyclic graph
Graph with no cycles