Ear Decomposition of the Petersen Graph

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show ear form

show classic form

This Demonstration shows an ear decomposition of the Petersen graph.

In graph theory, an ear is a path or cycle without repeated vertices. An ear decomposition starts with a cycle and then takes paths with the endpoints on earlier ears, but no internal points from earlier ears. With "show ear form", the ears have been drawn to be more obvious.

External Links

Petersen Graph (Wolfram MathWorld)

Permanent Citation

Sebastian Gonzalez Hermosillo de la Maza

"Ear Decomposition of the Petersen Graph"
http://demonstrations.wolfram.com/EarDecompositionOfThePetersenGraph/
Wolfram Demonstrations Project
Published: June 10, 2012