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Triangular Honeycomb King Graph


TriangularHoneycombKingGraph

The n-triangular honeycomb king graph, called the hex king graph by Wagon (2014), is a graph consisting of vertices in triangular honeycomb board with n vertices along each side, where vertices are connected by an edge if they are adjacent along a horizontal, +60 degrees, or -60 degrees line of the chessboard (DeMaio and Tran 2013, Wagon 2014). It is denoted K_n by DeMaio and Tran (2013) and TG_n by Wagon (2014). The graphs for n=3 and 4 are illustrated above.

As is clear from the diagrams, the n-triangular king graph is isomorphic to the triangular grid graph TG_n of Wagon (2014) and the (n-1)-triangular grid graph using the indexing convention of West (2000).

Triangular honeycomb king graphs are apex, bridgeless, connected, Eulerian, Hamiltonian, linklessly embeddable, map, matchstick, planar, projective planar, quadratically embeddable, rigid, traceable, triangular grid, uniquely colorable, unit-distance, and weakly perfect.

Triangular honeycomb king graphs are implemented in the Wolfram Language as GraphData[{"TriangularHoneycombKing", n}].


See also

King Graph, Triangular Grid Graph, Triangular Honeycomb Board

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References

DeMaio, H. and Tran, L. "Domination and Independence on a Triangular Honeycomb Chessboard." College Math. J. 44, 307-314, 2013.Konhauser, J. D. E.; Vellman, D.; and Wagon, S. Which Way Did the Bicycle Go and Other Intriguing Mathematical Mysteries. Washington, DC: Amer. Math. Soc., 1996.Wagon, S. "Graph Theory Problems from Hexagonal and Traditional Chess." College Math. J. 45, 278-287, 2014.West, D. B. Introduction to Graph Theory, 2nd ed. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, pp. 390-392, 2000.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Triangular Honeycomb King Graph." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Web Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/TriangularHoneycombKingGraph.html

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