A canonical labeling, also called a canonical form, of a graph is a graph which is isomorphic to and which represents the whole isomorphism class of (Piperno 2011). The complexity class of canonical labeling
is not known.
Efficient labeling methods yield an efficient tests for isomorphic
graphs, as provided for example by nauty, Traces, bliss, and other software implementations.
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