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284: 33: 181:. The same neighbourhood notation may also be used to refer to sets of adjacent vertices rather than the corresponding induced subgraphs. The neighbourhood described above does not include 260:
of its neighbourhoods. In addition, many important classes of graphs may be defined by properties of their neighbourhoods, or by symmetries that relate neighbourhoods to each other.
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In this graph, the vertices adjacent to 5 are 1, 2 and 4. The neighbourhood of 5 is the graph consisting of the vertices 1, 2, 4 and the edge connecting 1 and 2.
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is the union of the neighbourhoods of the vertices, and so it is the set of all vertices adjacent to at least one member of 
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that connects a vertex to itself; if such an edge exists, the vertex belongs to its own neighbourhood.
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is at most two; for instance, the graph of the regular icosahedron is claw-free because it is locally
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of the neighbourhood of the vertex does not contain a triangle. A graph that is locally
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is closed under the operation of taking induced subgraphs, then every graph in
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Neighbourhoods may be used to represent graphs in computer algorithms, via the
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of a vertex is equal to the number of adjacent vertices. A special case is a
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Seress, Ákos; Szabó, Tibor (1995), "Dense graphs with cycle neighborhoods",
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of vertices in a graph is said to be a module if every vertex in
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Sedláček, J. (1983), "On local properties of finite graphs",
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Subgraph made of all nodes linked to a given node of a graph
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For other meanings of neighbourhoods in mathematics, see
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are locally grid, meaning that each neighborhood is a
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A graph is locally cyclic if every neighbourhood is a
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have neighbourhoods that belong to some graph family
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representations. Neighbourhoods are also used in the
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of four vertices, so the octahedron is locally 
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Locally cyclic graphs other than 520:is locally (k)-(ultra)-homogeneous. 148:or (when the graph is unambiguous) 108:The neighbourhood is often denoted 24: 688:of vertices, the neighbourhood of 25: 1134: 623:; that is, for all vertices, the 66:is a vertex that is connected to 921:(1991), "Clean triangulations", 755:, a related concept in polyhedra 631:is claw-free if and only if the 542:is the unique connected locally 531:is the unique connected locally 482:{\displaystyle O({\sqrt {kn}})} 197:itself is included, called the 799: 772: 598: 592: 476: 463: 267:has no adjacent vertices. The 226: 220: 166: 160: 133: 127: 13: 1: 990:10.1016/S0012-365X(02)00266-2 885:; see in particular pp. 89–90 858: 518:(k)-(ultra)-homogeneous graph 516:is locally comparable; every 449:-1)-chromatic. Every locally 430:if and only if it is locally 303:have neighbourhoods that are 1018:10.1016/0095-8956(92)90015-P 653:has independence number two. 93:by all vertices adjacent to 7: 806:Hartsfeld & Ringel 1991 748:Second neighborhood problem 726: 42:Neighbourhood (mathematics) 18:Neighborhood (graph theory) 10: 1139: 606:{\displaystyle n^{2-o(1)}} 512:is locally perfect; every 508:is locally chordal; every 279:Local properties in graphs 39: 759:Link (simplicial complex) 743:Von Neumann neighbourhood 319:, and if all vertices in 969:; Pizaña, M. A. (2002), 865:Cohen, Arjeh M. (1990), 765: 139:{\displaystyle N_{G}(v)} 825:Seress & Szabó 1995 814:Malnič & Mohar 1992 553:of order 13 is locally 335:. For instance, in the 1069:10.1006/jctb.1995.1020 680:Neighbourhood of a set 607: 569:Whitney triangulations 504:. 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Index

Neighborhood (graph theory)

Neighbourhood (mathematics)
graph theory
vertex
graph
edge
induced
adjacency list
adjacency matrix
clustering coefficient
density
isolated vertex
degree
loop

octahedron graph
cycle
isomorphic
octahedron graph
cycle
complete graph
Turán graph
planar graph
outerplanar
triangle-free
independent
chromatic
chordal graph
perfect graph

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