heawood_graph

heawood_graph(create_using=None)

Returns the Heawood Graph, a (3,6) cage.

The Heawood Graph is an undirected graph with 14 nodes and 21 edges, named after Percy John Heawood [1]. It is cubic symmetric, nonplanar, Hamiltonian, and can be represented in LCF notation as [5,-5]^7 [2]. It is the unique (3,6)-cage: the regular cubic graph of girth 6 with minimal number of vertices [3].

Parameters:

create_usingNetworkX graph constructor, optional (default=nx.Graph)

Graph type to create. If graph instance, then cleared before populated.

Returns:

Gnetworkx Graph

Heawood Graph with 14 nodes and 21 edges

References

[1]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heawood_graph

[2]

https://mathworld.wolfram.com/HeawoodGraph.html

[3]

https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/graphs/Heawood.html

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Additional backends implement this function

cugraph : GPU-accelerated backend.