Peripheral cycleIn graph theory, a peripheral cycle (or peripheral circuit) in an undirected graph is, intuitively, a cycle that does not separate any part of the graph from any other part. Peripheral cycles (or, as they were initially called, peripheral polygons, because Tutte called cycles "polygons") were first studied by , and play important roles in the characterization of planar graphs and in generating the cycle spaces of nonplanar graphs.
Théorème de KirchhoffDans le domaine de la théorie des graphes, le théorème de Kirchhoff, aussi appelé matrix-tree theorem, nommé d'après le physicien Gustav Kirchhoff, est un théorème donnant le nombre exact d'arbres couvrants pour un graphe non orienté quelconque. C'est une généralisation de la formule de Cayley qui donne ce résultat pour les graphes complets non orientés. Le théorème de Kirchhoff s'appuie sur la notion de matrice laplacienne, définie elle-même comme la différence entre la matrice des degrés et la matrice d'adjacence du graphe.
Wagner's theoremIn graph theory, Wagner's theorem is a mathematical forbidden graph characterization of planar graphs, named after Klaus Wagner, stating that a finite graph is planar if and only if its minors include neither K5 (the complete graph on five vertices) nor K3,3 (the utility graph, a complete bipartite graph on six vertices). This was one of the earliest results in the theory of graph minors and can be seen as a forerunner of the Robertson–Seymour theorem.
Matroid oracleIn mathematics and computer science, a matroid oracle is a subroutine through which an algorithm may access a matroid, an abstract combinatorial structure that can be used to describe the linear dependencies between vectors in a vector space or the spanning trees of a graph, among other applications. The most commonly used oracle of this type is an independence oracle, a subroutine for testing whether a set of matroid elements is independent.
William TutteWilliam Thomas Tutte ( – ) est un mathématicien et cryptanalyste britannique, puis canadien. Pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il décrypte l'un des principaux codes allemands, ce qui a un impact significatif sur le succès des opérations alliées. Il apporte aussi des contributions importantes en mathématiques, dont un travail fondateur en combinatoire, notamment en théorie des matroïdes et en théorie des graphes. Tutte est né à Newmarket dans le Suffolk, d'un père jardinier.
Branch-decompositionIn graph theory, a branch-decomposition of an undirected graph G is a hierarchical clustering of the edges of G, represented by an unrooted binary tree T with the edges of G as its leaves. Removing any edge from T partitions the edges of G into two subgraphs, and the width of the decomposition is the maximum number of shared vertices of any pair of subgraphs formed in this way. The branchwidth of G is the minimum width of any branch-decomposition of G.
Arbre couvrant de poids minimalthumb|L'arbre couvrant de poids minimal d'un graphe planaire. Chaque arête est identifiée avec son poids qui, ici, est approximativement sa longueur. En théorie des graphes, étant donné un graphe non orienté connexe dont les arêtes sont pondérées, un arbre couvrant de poids minimal (ACM), arbre couvrant minimum ou arbre sous-tendant minimum de ce graphe est un arbre couvrant (sous-ensemble qui est un arbre et qui connecte tous les sommets ensemble) dont la somme des poids des arêtes est minimale (c'est-à-dire de poids inférieur ou égal à celui de tous les autres arbres couvrants du graphe).
Maille (théorie des graphes)En théorie des graphes, la maille d'un graphe est la longueur du plus court de ses cycles. Un graphe acyclique est généralement considéré comme ayant une maille infinie (ou, pour certains auteurs, une maille de −1). La maille d'un graphe est la longueur du plus court de ses cycles. Image:Petersen graph blue.svg|Le [[graphe de Petersen]] a une maille de 5 et est une cage. Image:Heawood_Graph.svg|Le [[graphe de Heawood]] a une maille de 6 et est une cage. Image:Frucht_graph.neato.
Component (graph theory)In graph theory, a component of an undirected graph is a connected subgraph that is not part of any larger connected subgraph. The components of any graph partition its vertices into disjoint sets, and are the induced subgraphs of those sets. A graph that is itself connected has exactly one component, consisting of the whole graph. Components are sometimes called connected components. The number of components in a given graph is an important graph invariant, and is closely related to invariants of matroids, topological spaces, and matrices.
Bicircular matroidIn the mathematical subject of matroid theory, the bicircular matroid of a graph G is the matroid B(G) whose points are the edges of G and whose independent sets are the edge sets of pseudoforests of G, that is, the edge sets in which each connected component contains at most one cycle. The bicircular matroid was introduced by and explored further by and others. It is a special case of the frame matroid of a biased graph.
