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Word-Representable Graph


A word-representable graph is a graph for which there is a word on its vertex set such that two distinct letters alternate in the word precisely when the corresponding vertices are adjacent. A representing word is k-uniform if every graph vertex occurs exactly k times. The least such k is the representation number R(G).

Akgün et al. (2019) enumerated the connected graphs that are not word-representable. For n=1, 2, ..., their numbers begin 0, 0, 0, 0, 0, 1, 25, 929, 54957, 4880093, 650856040, ... (OEIS A290814). A non-word-representable graph is minimal when every proper induced subgraph is word-representable. For n=5, 6, ..., the numbers of minimal examples begin 0, 1, 10, 47, 179, ... (OEIS A319491).


See also

Representation Number, Word

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References

Akgün, Ö.; Gent, I. P.; Kitaev, S.; and Zantema, H. "Solving Computational Problems in the Theory of Word-Representable Graphs." J. Integer Seq. 22, Article 19.2.5, 2019. https://cs.uwaterloo.ca/journals/JIS/VOL22/Kitaev/kitaev11.html.Sloane, N. J. A. Sequences A290814 and A319491 in "The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences."

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Word-Representable Graph." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Word-RepresentableGraph.html

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