Lecture 25. 



Yurai Nuñez gave the lecture today. I like to distinguish edges between edges in a directed graph, or an undirected graph by the use of different parentheses. For example a directed edge from u to v is an ordered pair (u,v). On the other hand an edge u,v is simple a two element subset {u,v}.

Yurai went over terminology that is used in graph theory. Some of these terms are not quite standard, although the terms that you saw coincide with or text book and are very common. Sometimes a graph with no loops (an edge from a vertex to itself) or multiple edges (that is more that one copy of the edge {u,v} in an undirected graph, or (u,v) in the directed graph) is called a "simple graph". All of the graphs considered in or book are simple, so the simple adjective is dropped.

Yurai also talked about graph representations. In particular the adjacency matrix, the incidence matrix, and the linked structure called an adjacency list.

I will continue with graph algorithms for the rest of this week.  

Posted: Mon - March 12, 2007 at 02:55 PM          


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