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networkx.generators.community.caveman_graph

caveman_graph(l, k)

Returns a caveman graph of l cliques of size k.

Parameters:

• l (int) – Number of cliques
• k (int) – Size of cliques

Returns:

G – caveman graph

Return type:

NetworkX Graph

Notes

This returns an undirected graph, it can be converted to a directed graph using nx.to_directed(), or a multigraph using nx.MultiGraph(nx.caveman_graph(l, k)). Only the undirected version is described in [1] and it is unclear which of the directed generalizations is most useful.

Examples

>>> G = nx.caveman_graph(3, 3)

See also

connected_caveman_graph()

References

[1]	Watts, D. J. ‘Networks, Dynamics, and the Small-World Phenomenon.’ Amer. J. Soc. 105, 493-527, 1999.