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Vertex-Induced Subgraph


InducedSubgraph

A vertex-induced subgraph (sometimes simply called an "induced subgraph") is a subset of the vertices of a graph G together with any edges whose endpoints are both in this subset. The figure above illustrates the subgraph induced on the complete graph K_(10) by the vertex subset {1,2,3,5,7,10}. An induced subgraph that is a complete graph is called a clique. Any induced subgraph of a complete graph forms a clique. The subgraph induced by a set of vertices can be computed in the Wolfram Language using Subgraph[g, vlist].

A graph is called a perfect graph if, for each of its induced subgraphs g_i, the chromatic number of g_i equals the largest number of pairwise adjacent vertices in g_i.


See also

Clique, Edge-Induced Subgraph, Forbidden Subgraph, Perfect Graph, Subgraph

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References

Harary, F. Graph Theory. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, p. 11, 1994.Skiena, S. "Induced Subgraphs." §3.2.2 in Implementing Discrete Mathematics: Combinatorics and Graph Theory with Mathematica. Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, pp. 90-92, 1990.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Vertex-Induced Subgraph." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Vertex-InducedSubgraph.html

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