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Encyclopedia > Cycle (graph theory)

Cycle in graph theory and computer science has several meanings: A diagram of a graph with 6 vertices and 7 edges. ... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Computer Science Open Directory Project: Computer Science Downloadable Science and Computer Science books Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies Belief that title science in computer science is inappropriate Categories: Wikipedia articles needing priority cleanup | Computer science ...

  • A closed walk, with repeated vertices allowed. See path (graph theory). (This usage is common in computer science. In graph theory it is more often called a closed walk.)
  • A closed (simple) path, with no other repeated vertices than the starting and ending vertices. (This usage is common in graph theory.) This may also be called a simple cycle, circuit, circle, or polygon.
  • A closed directed walk, with repeated vertices allowed. (This usage is common in computer science. In graph theory it is more often called a closed directed walk.)
  • A closed directed (simple) path, with no repeated vertices other than the starting and ending vertices. (This usage is common in graph theory.) This may also be called a simple (directed) cycle.
  • The edge set of an undirected closed path without repeated vertices. This may also be called a circuit, circle, or polygon.
  • An element of the binary or integral (or real, complex, etc.) cycle space of a graph. (This is the usage closest to that in the rest of mathematics, in particular algebraic topology.) Such a cycle may be called a binary cycle, integral cycle, etc.
  • An edge set which has even degree at every vertex; also called an even edge set or, when taken together with its vertices, an even subgraph. This is equivalent to a binary cycle, since a binary cycle is the characteristic function of an edge set of this type.

In mathematics, a path in a graph is a sequence of vertices such that from each of its vertices there is an edge to the successor vertex. ... // The binary cycle space In graph theory, certain vector spaces over the two-element field Z2 are associated with an undirected graph; this allows one to use the tools of linear algebra to study graphs. ... Algebraic topology is a branch of mathematics in which tools from abstract algebra are used to study topological spaces. ... Some mathematicians use the phrase characteristic function synonymously with indicator function. ...

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In the mathematical field of graph theory a cycle graph or circle graph is a graph that consists of a cycle. ... In mathematics, a path in a graph is a sequence of vertices such that from each of its vertices there is an edge to the successor vertex. ...

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Traditionally, a cycle in a graph consisted of a sequence of successively incident edges and their endvertices, where the terminating vertices are identical.
A subtree of the graph G is a subgraph that is a tree.
A k-factorable graph is a graph that admits a k-factorization.
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