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Line graphs called "graph derivatives": any intuition?

Short version: in several papers, line graphs (and closely related graphs) are called graph derivatives or derived graphs; is there any intuition for such terminologies, in connection with the ...
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Merging two composable walks in a graph

Let $G$ be a graph (i.e., an undirected graph in which we allow for loops and parallel edges). Denote by $V$ the vertex set, by $E$ the edge set, and by $\psi$ the incidence function of $G$, and let $\...
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What is this operation on graphs called?

I am currently studying certain infinite graphs in terms of their finite induced subgraphs. For the graphs that I am interested in the class of finite induced subgraphs is closed under the following ...
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Another betweenness centrality measure: neighbourhood centrality

Among the many centrality measures that I have heard of, I miss the following (but maybe I'm just blind). Consider a graph $G$ with $k$ connected components $G_i$ of size $|G_i|$. The number of node ...
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Term or reference for a set of integer edge weights to guarantee distinct weighted degrees

I am looking for a term or reference describing sets $S$ of $\binom{n}{2}$ non-negative integers such that, for every bijection $w: E(K_n)\to S$ and every pair of distinct vertices $u$ and $v$ in $V(...
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Name of a binary matroid coming from the cycle space of a graph

In some of my recent work, I have 'discovered' a binary matroid which I will describe below. Given a graph $G$, let $H_1(G, \mathbb{Z}/2\mathbb{Z})$ denote the cycle space. This is a vector space ...
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Graphs all of whose cuts are positive

Let $(V, E, w)$ a weighted graph, with vertices $V$, edges $E$, and signed weight $w:E\to \mathbb R$. I am interested to know other popular properties that are known to imply, or are equivalent to, ...
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What is the standard definition of dual of disconnected planar graph when underlying graph derives 'product structure' over connected graphs?

Dual graph of a plane graph has a standard definition https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual_graph and an edgeless graph on $n$ vertices is planar. What is the standard dual graph of such a graph? Update ...
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Yet another graph characteristic

I wonder if the following graph-theoretical concepts have been considered before, and if so, under which name. Consider a directed graph $G$ with $n$ nodes. Let the cycle number $\gamma(\nu)$ be ...
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Graphs which are built from complete graphs : Reference request

Let $V$ be a set of $n$ vertices. Fix $3 \le k \le n$. Let $\binom V k$ be the set of all $k$ element subsets of $V$. We add the edges in $V$ as follows: Let $\mathcal S \subseteq \binom V k$ be ...
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Terminology for transforming a directed acyclic graph into a tree

I am looking for the term of converting a directed acyclic graph (DAG) into a tree by traversing its topologically ordered nodes and copying the subtrees of the nodes with in-degree $> 1$. Such a ...
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Standard names of two finitary properties of hypergraphs?

Now we are writing a paper on minimal covers and minimal vertex-covers in hypergraphs and would like to know if there are any standard names for the following two (dual) properties of a hypergraph $(V,...
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Term for "Directed acyclic graph with exactly one sink and one source"

There's a theorem/lemma that states that a finite directed acyclic graph (DAG) has at least one sink and at least one source. Is there a term for a (finite) DAG with exactly one sink and one source? ...
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What is the standard name of an edge-graph

Given a graph $G=(E,V)$, I construct a graph $G'$ where the vertices of $G'$ are given by the edges of $G$ and say that two edges of $G$ are neighbors in $G'$ if they have a common vertex. Is there a ...
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Graph Coloring: Two adjacent vertices share same color

Consider, subgraphs $G_1, G_2,...... G_x$ of graph $G$. Each subgraph has $k$ vertices. Now, Fix subgraph $G_1$ and consider another subgraph $G_k$ where $1 <k \le x$. The edge set ...
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Maximal Minimum Weight DAGs

In the case of undirected, connected graphs the name for the maximal cycle-free subgraph of minimal weight is called Minimum Spanning Tree, and the efficient algorithms for their calculation are well ...
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Node-edge coloring of graphs

There must be work on this concept, but I am not finding it through searches, perhaps using the wrong terminology.           Define a node-edge coloring of a graph $G=(V,E)$...
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Name of an operation on graphs

I asked this a week ago on math.SE, but haven't obtained an answer yet, so I hope it is fine to ask this here too. Let $G$ and $H$ be two possibly directed, non necessarily simple, vertex-labelled ...
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Have this subclass of split graphs been studied before?

I am interested in the properties of the following subclass of split graphs: The class consists of all split graphs $G=(C\cup I)$ where $C$ is a clique and $I$ an independent set, and every pair of ...