A vertex-induced subgraph (sometimes simply called an "induced subgraph") is a subset of the vertices of a graph together with any edges whose endpoints are both in this subset. The figure above illustrates the subgraph induced on the complete graph by the vertex subset . 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 , the chromatic number of equals the largest number of pairwise adjacent vertices in .