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A walk in a graph G is a finite sequence of vertices x 0,x 1,...,x n and edges a 1, a 2,...,a n of G:
Where the endpoints of a i are x i-1 and x i for each i. A simple walk is a walk in which no edge is repeated. If it is desired to specify the terminal vertices, the above walk is called an x 0 x n -walk. The length of a walk is its number of edges.
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Wallis, W.D. (2000). Walks, Paths and Cycles. In: A Beginner’s Guide to Graph Theory. Birkhäuser, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-3134-7_2
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