Largeur de cliquevignette|upright=1.6|Construction d'un graphe (ici un graphe à distance héréditaire) de largeur de clique 3 par une succession d'unions disjointes, de renommages et de fusions d'étiquettes. Les étiquettes des sommets sont affichées sous forme de couleurs. En théorie des graphes, la largeur de clique d'un graphe est l'un des paramètres qui décrit la complexité structurelle du graphe ; il est étroitement lié à largeur arborescente, mais contrairement à celle-ci, elle peut être bornée même pour des graphes denses .
Graphe chenillethumb|upright=1.2|Un graphe chenille. En théorie des graphes, un graphe chenille ou plus simplement une chenille est un arbre dans lequel tous les sommets sont à distance au plus 1 d'un chemin central. Les graphes chenilles ont d'abord été étudiés dans une série d'articles de Harary et Schwenk. Le nom a été suggéré par A. Hobbs. Harary & Schwenk écrivent de façon colorée : « une chenille est un arbre qui se métamorphose en un chemin lorsque son cocon de points d'extrémité est supprimé ».
Hall-type theorems for hypergraphsIn the mathematical field of graph theory, Hall-type theorems for hypergraphs are several generalizations of Hall's marriage theorem from graphs to hypergraphs. Such theorems were proved by Ofra Kessler, Ron Aharoni, Penny Haxell, Roy Meshulam, and others. Hall's marriage theorem provides a condition guaranteeing that a bipartite graph (X + Y, E) admits a perfect matching, or - more generally - a matching that saturates all vertices of Y. The condition involves the number of neighbors of subsets of Y.
Maximum cardinality matchingMaximum cardinality matching is a fundamental problem in graph theory. We are given a graph G, and the goal is to find a matching containing as many edges as possible; that is, a maximum cardinality subset of the edges such that each vertex is adjacent to at most one edge of the subset. As each edge will cover exactly two vertices, this problem is equivalent to the task of finding a matching that covers as many vertices as possible.
Χ-boundedIn graph theory, a -bounded family of graphs is one for which there is some function such that, for every integer the graphs in with (clique number) can be colored with at most colors. This concept and its notation were formulated by András Gyárfás. The use of the Greek letter chi in the term -bounded is based on the fact that the chromatic number of a graph is commonly denoted . It is not true that the family of all graphs is -bounded.
