Graph Theory, an Antiprism Graph Is a Graph That Has One of the Antiprisms As Its Skeleton
Graph families From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Chapter 1 Antiprism graph In the mathematical field of graph theory, an antiprism graph is a graph that has one of the antiprisms as its skeleton. An n-sided antiprism has 2n vertices and 4n edges. They are regular, polyhedral (and therefore by necessity also 3- vertex-connected, vertex-transitive, and planar graphs), and also Hamiltonian graphs.[1] 1.1 Examples The first graph in the sequence, the octahedral graph, has 6 vertices and 12 edges. Later graphs in the sequence may be named after the type of antiprism they correspond to: • Octahedral graph – 6 vertices, 12 edges • square antiprismatic graph – 8 vertices, 16 edges • Pentagonal antiprismatic graph – 10 vertices, 20 edges • Hexagonal antiprismatic graph – 12 vertices, 24 edges • Heptagonal antiprismatic graph – 14 vertices, 28 edges • Octagonal antiprismatic graph– 16 vertices, 32 edges • ... Although geometrically the star polygons also form the faces of a different sequence of (self-intersecting) antiprisms, the star antiprisms, they do not form a different sequence of graphs. 1.2 Related graphs An antiprism graph is a special case of a circulant graph, Ci₂n(2,1). Other infinite sequences of polyhedral graph formed in a similar way from polyhedra with regular-polygon bases include the prism graphs (graphs of prisms) and wheel graphs (graphs of pyramids). Other vertex-transitive polyhedral graphs include the Archimedean graphs. 1.3 References [1] Read, R. C. and Wilson, R. J. An Atlas of Graphs, Oxford, England: Oxford University Press, 2004 reprint, Chapter 6 special graphs pp. 261, 270. 2 1.4. EXTERNAL LINKS 3 1.4 External links • Weisstein, Eric W., “Antiprism graph”, MathWorld.
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