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block (Definition)

A subgraph $B$ of a graph $G$ is a block of $G$ if either it is a bridge (together with the vertices incident with the bridge) or else it is a maximal 2-connected subgraph of $G$

Any two blocks of a graph $G$ have at most one vertex in common. Also, every vertex belonging to at least two blocks is a cutvertex of $G$ and, conversely, every cutvertex belongs to at least two blocks.

Adapted with permission of the author from Modern Graph Theory by Béla Bollobás, published by Springer-Verlag New York, Inc., 1998.




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See Also: cut-vertex, bridge

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Cross-references: conversely, cutvertex, incident, vertices, bridge, graph, subgraph
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AMS MSC05C99 (Combinatorics :: Graph theory :: Miscellaneous)

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