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You have enough to worry about memorizing without keeping all these terms in your head. We intend to provide this list for your reference during every in-class evaluation relating to graphs.

Term Definition
Walk

An alternating sequence of vertices and edges

  • starting and ending with a vertex,
  • each edge (x,y) in the walk follows vertex x and is followed by vertex y
Path A walk that does not visit any vertex twice
Closed Walk A walk that begins and ends at the same vertex
Cycle A closed walk that is a path except for its last vertex

The related definitions on relations R : A \rightarrow A are

Term Definition
R is Reflexive \forall x \in A \;.\; x R x
R is Irreflexive \forall x \in A \;.\; \lnot(x R x)
R is Symmetric \forall x,y \in A \;.\; (x R y) \rightarrow (y R x)
R is Asymmetric \forall x,y \in A \;.\; (x R y) \rightarrow \lnot(y R x)
R is Antisymmetric \forall x \neq y \in A \;.\; (x R y) \rightarrow \lnot(y R x)
R is Transitive \forall x,y,z \in A \;.\; (x R y) \land (y R z) \rightarrow (x R z)

And those lead to these terms:

Term Definition
Strict partial order transitive and asymmetric
Weak partial order transitive, reflexive, and antisymmetric
Equivalence relation transitive, reflexive, and symmetric