The -sunlet graph is the graph on
vertices obtained by attaching
pendant edges to a cycle graph
(ISGCI), i.e., the coronas
(Frucht 1979). Sunlet graphs have also been
called crown graphs (e.g., Gallian 2018), a terminology that conflicts with the use
of the term "crown graph" in this work to
refer to a rook complement graph
.
Sunlet graphs are trivially unit-distance graphs, as well as matchstick graphs. They are also graceful (Frucht 1979).
Note that Wallis (2000) and Anitha and Lekshmi (2008) use the term "-sun" graph to refer to sunlet graphs, whereas ISGCI and
other authors reserve that term for a different type of graph.
The 3-sunlet graph is also known as the net graph.
If the restriction
in the I graph
is loosened, the
-sunlet graph corresponds to
.