In the mathematical discipline of graph theory, a wheel graph Wn is a graph with n vertices (n ≥ 4), formed by connecting a single vertex to all vertices of an (n-1)-cycle. The numerical notation for wheels is used inconsistently in the literature: some authors instead use n to refer to the length of the cycle, so that their Wn is the graph we denote Wn+1. A wheel graph can also be defined as the 1-skeleton of an (n-1)-gonal pyramid.
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Famous quotes containing the words wheel and/or graph:
“It might become a wheel spoked red and white
In alternate stripes converging at a point
Of flame on the line, with a second wheel below,
Just rising, accompanying, arranged to cross,
Through weltering illuminations, humps
Of billows, downward, toward the drift-fire shore.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
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—W.N.P. Barbellion (1889–1919)