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Stober-WeißGraphs


The Stober-Weißgraphs are the family of geodetic graphs H(m,n,p,s) constructed by Stober and Weiß (2026), where m,n,p>=2 and s>=0 are integers.

First construct a graph h(m,n,s). Take disjoint complete graphs K_m and K_n, with vertices u_1,...,u_m and v_1,...,v_n, and m disjoint copies of a star graph with n tree leaves. Write c_i for the graph center and w_(ij) for tree leaf j of star graph i. Join u_i to c_i, and w_(ij) to v_j, by internally vertex-disjoint paths of path length s+1. These paths are otherwise disjoint from the cliques and star graphs. This is the Bosák graph h(m,n,s) (Bosák 1978).

Now take h(m,n,s), h(n,p,s), and h(p,m,s). Identify the K_n in the first copy with the corresponding K_n in the second, identify the two corresponding K_p cliques, and identify the two corresponding K_m cliques. The resulting graph is H(m,n,p,s). It has

 m+n+p+(s+1)(mn+np+pm+m+n+p)

vertices, is geodetic, and has graph diameter 3s+4.

The smallest member H(2,2,2,0) has 24 vertices, graph diameter 4, and was the first member found in the computer search that led to the general construction (Stober and Weiß 2026).


See also

Clique, Geodetic Graph, Graph Diameter, Star Graph

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References

Bosák, J. "Geodetic Graphs." In Combinatorics: Proceedings of the Colloquium, Keszthely, 1976. Amsterdam, Netherlands: North-Holland, pp. 151-172, 1978.Stober, F. and Weiß, A. "Geodetic Graphs: Experiments and New Constructions." Electron. J. Combin. 33, P3.64, 2026. https://doi.org/10.37236/13950.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Stober-WeißGraphs." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Stober-WeissGraphs.html

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