::''An incidence graph is a
Levi graph
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In
graph theory
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, a
vertex
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*Vertex (geometry), a point where two or more curves, lines, or edges meet
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is incident with an
edge
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if the vertex is one of the two vertices the edge connects.
An incidence is a pair
where
is a vertex and
is an edge incident with
Two distinct incidences
and
are
adjacent if either the vertices
or the edges
are adjacent, which is the case if one of the following holds:
*
and
*
and
or
*
,
, and
An
incidence coloring In graph theory, the act of coloring generally implies the assignment of labels to vertices, edges or faces in a graph. The incidence coloring is a special graph labeling where each incidence of an edge with a vertex is assigned a color under ...
of a graph
is an
assignment of a color to each incidence of G in such a way that adjacent incidences get distinct colors. It is equivalent to a
strong edge coloring of the graph obtained by
subdivising each edge of
once.
References
, The Incidence Coloring Page by Éric Sopena.
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