Herschel graph

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proper noun

graph theoryA bipartite undirected graph with 11 vertices and 18 edges that is the smallest non-Hamiltonian polyhedral graph.
Select a suitable independent set / and use part (b) to show that the graph in Fig. 11.81 (known as the Herschel graph) has no Hamilton cycle.
1994, Ralph P. Grimaldi, Discrete and Combinatorial Mathematics: An Applied Introduction, page 587
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A bipartite graph like the Herschel graph of Figure 9.2 is also non-hamiltonian, but the algorithm is not likely to delete enough vertices to notice that it has a large separating set.
2004, William Kocay, Donald L. Kreher, Graphs, Algorithms, and Optimization, page 202
2006, Michael S. Keane, Dee Denteneer, Frank Hollander, Evgeny Verbitskiy, Dynamics and Stochastics, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Lecture Notes—Monograph Series, Volume 48, page 174, It is difficult to control what loops may arise: for example the Herschel graph [3] shows that a convex polyhedron need not be Hamiltonian as a graph.
Synonyms: Herschel's graph

Synonyms & antonyms

proper nounA bipartite undirected graph with 11 vertices and 18 edges that is the smallest non-Hamiltonian polyhedral graph.

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Herschel's graph

Origin

From Herschel (“a surname”) + graph, after British astronomer Alexander Stewart Herschel (1836–1907), who identified the associated polyhedron (an enneahedron) as one for which there is no solution to the icosian game.

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