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The girth of a graph is the length of the shortest cycle in .1
For instance, the girth of any grid
(where ) is 4, and the girth of the vertex graph of the dodecahedron is 5.
Footnotes
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- There is no widespread agreement on the girth of a forest, which has no cycles. It is also extremely unimportant.
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Cross-references: dodecahedron, vertex, grid, forest, cycle, length, graph
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Classification:
| AMS MSC: | 05C38 (Combinatorics :: Graph theory :: Paths and cycles) |
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