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20: 62:, the graph of moves of a chess king on a chessboard, which can be constructed as a strong product of path graphs. Decompositions of planar graphs and related graph classes into strong products have been used as a central tool to prove many other results about these graphs. 42:
is a way of combining two graphs to make a larger graph. Two vertices are adjacent in the strong product when they come from pairs of vertices in the factor graphs that are either adjacent or identical. The strong product is one of several different
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operations that have been studied in graph theory. The strong product of any two graphs can be constructed as the union of two other products of the same two graphs, the
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of the strong product of any two graphs equals the product of the clique numbers of the two graphs. If two graphs both have bounded
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is a graph formed from the leaves of a tree by making two leaves adjacent when their distance in the tree is below some threshold
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Bonnet, Édouard; Geniet, Colin; Kim, Eun Jung; Thomassé, Stéphan; Watrigant, Rémi (2022), "Twin-width II: small classes",
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Dębski, Michał; Felsner, Stefan; Micek, Piotr; Schröder, Felix (2021), "Improved bounds for centered colorings",
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Kozawa, Kyohei; Otachi, Yota; Yamazaki, Koichi (2014), "Lower bounds for treewidth of product graphs",
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in the literature, since it has also been used to denote the tensor product of graphs.
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and whose edges represent possible moves of a chess king, is a strong product of two
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at most six. This result has been used to prove that planar graphs have bounded
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An optimal algorithm for the product structure of planar graphs
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is a subgraph of a strong product of a path and a graph of
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Graph product structure for non-minor-closed classes
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Care should be exercised when encountering the term
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king's graph
path graphs
graph theory
graph product
Cartesian product of graphs
tensor product of graphs
king's graph
graphs
if and only if
union
Cartesian product
tensor product
king's graph
chessboard
path graphs
planar graph
treewidth
queue number
universal graphs
adjacency labeling schemes
linear time
genus
forbidden minor
apex graph
k-planar graphs
clique number
twin-width
leaf power
cycle graph

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