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Graphs are a fundamental combinatorial structure used throughout this book. In this chapter we not only review the standard definitions and notation, but also prove some basic theorems and mention some fundamental algorithms.
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Korte, B., Vygen, J. (2000). Graphs. In: Combinatorial Optimization. Algorithms and Combinatorics, vol 21. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-21708-5_2
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