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Triangulated Graph


A planar graph G is said to be triangulated (also called maximal planar) if the addition of any edge to G results in a nonplanar graph.

If the special cases of the triangle graph C_3 and tetrahedral graph K_4 (which are planar that already contain a maximal number of edges) are included, maximal planar graphs are the skeletons of simple polyhedra and are isomorphic to planar graphs with 3n-6 edges.

Triangulated graphs are implemented in the Wolfram Language as GraphData["Triangulated"].

Apollonian networks are triangulated graphs. The following table summarizes some named triangulated graphs.

SimplePolyhedra

The numbers of maximal planar simple graphs on n=1, 2, ... nodes are 0, 0, 1, 1, 1, 2, 5, 14, 50, 233, 1249, ... (OEIS A000109), the first few of which are illustrated above.


See also

Critical Nonplanar Graph, Planar Graph, Nonplanar Graph, Simple Polyhedron

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References

Sloane, N. J. A. Sequence A000109/M1469 in "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences."Tucker, A. Applied Combinatorics, 4th ed. New York: Wiley, p. 43, 2001.

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Triangulated Graph

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Triangulated Graph." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/TriangulatedGraph.html

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