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Pdf the energy of a graph g is the sum of the absolute values of its eigenvalues. Connections between graph theory and cryptography hash functions, expander and random graphs anidea. Of these, maybe the most interesting one is 99,14,1,2 since it is the simplest to explain. What are some good books for selfstudying graph theory. There is also a platformindependent professional edition, which can be annotated, printed, and shared over many devices. Graph theory has experienced a tremendous growth during the 20th century. One of the main reasons for this phenomenon is the applicability of graph theory in other disciplines such as physics, chemistry, psychology, sociology, and theoretical computer science. The greeks were familiar with the five regular solids, but there is no evidence that they.
A graph in which each vertex has the same degree is a regular graph. The latter appeared in the book vorstudien zur topologie. The graph g is called kregular regular for a natural number k if all vertices have degree k. Graph theory graduate texts in mathematics, 244 laboratory of.