King's graph
| King's graph | |
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8x8 King's graph | |
| Vertices | nm |
| Edges | 4nm-3(n+m)+2 |
In graph theory, a king's graph is a graph that represents all legal moves of the king chess piece on a chessboard where each vertex represents a square on a chessboard and each edge is a legal move. More specifically, an king's graph is a king's graph of an chessboard.[1] It is the map graph formed from the squares of a chessboard by making a vertex for each square and an edge for each two squares that share an edge or a corner. It can also be constructed as the strong product of two path graphs.[2]
For a king's graph the total number of vertices is and the number of edges is . For a square king's graph, the total number of vertices is and the total number of edges is .[3]
The neighbourhood of a vertex in the king's graph corresponds to the Moore neighborhood for cellular automata.[4] A generalization of the king's graph, called a kinggraph, is formed from a squaregraph (a planar graph in which each bounded face is a quadrilateral and each interior vertex has at least four neighbors) by adding the two diagonals of every quadrilateral face of the squaregraph.[5]
References
- ↑ Chang, Gerard J. (1998), "Algorithmic aspects of domination in graphs", in Du, Ding-Zhu; Pardalos, Panos M., Handbook of combinatorial optimization, Vol. 3, Boston, MA: Kluwer Acad. Publ., pp. 339–405, MR 1665419. Chang defines the king's graph on p. 341.
- ↑ Berend, Daniel; Korach, Ephraim; Zucker, Shira (2005), "Two-anticoloring of planar and related graphs" (PDF), 2005 International Conference on Analysis of Algorithms, Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science Proceedings, Nancy: Association for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, pp. 335–341, MR 2193130.
- ↑ "Sloane's A002943". The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences. OEIS Foundation.
- ↑ Smith, Alvy Ray (1971), "Two-dimensional formal languages and pattern recognition by cellular automata", 12th Annual Symposium on Switching and Automata Theory, pp. 144–152, doi:10.1109/SWAT.1971.29.
- ↑ Chepoi, Victor; Dragan, Feodor; Vaxès, Yann (2002), "Center and diameter problems in plane triangulations and quadrangulations", Proceedings of the Thirteenth Annual ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA '02), pp. 346–355.