The double graph of a given graph  is constructed by making two copies of 
 (including the initial edge set
 of each) and adding edges 
 and 
 for every edge 
 of 
.
Note that the double graph differs from the bipartite double graph in that the initial edge set is retained in the double graph, while it is discarded in the bipartite double graph.
 
         
	    
	
    
