For a graph vertex of a graph, let
and
denote the subgraphs of
induced by the graph vertices adjacent to and nonadjacent
to
,
respectively. The empty graph is defined to be superregular, and
is said to be superregular if
is a regular graph and
both
and
are superregular for all
.
The superregular graphs are precisely ,
(
),
(
), and the complements of these graphs, where
is a cyclic graph,
is a complete
graph and
is
disjoint copies of
,
and
is the Cartesian product of
with itself (the graph whose graph
vertex set consists of
graph vertices arranged
in an
square with two graph vertices adjacent iff
they are in the same row or column).