Holt graph

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The Holt graph has diameter 3, radius 3 and girth 5, chromatic number 3, chromatic index 5 and is Hamiltonian with 98,472 distinct Hamiltonian cycles.[6] It is also a 4-vertex-connected and a 4-edge-connected graph. It has book thickness 3 and queue number 3.[7]

It has an automorphism group of order 54.[6] This is a smaller group than a symmetric graph with the same number of vertices and edges would have. The graph drawing on the right highlights this, in that it lacks reflectional symmetry.

The characteristic polynomial of the Holt graph is

(x36x+2)6(x+2)4(x1)4(x4). 

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References

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  1. Doyle, P. "A 27-Vertex Graph That Is Vertex-Transitive and Edge-Transitive But Not L-Transitive." October 1998. [1]
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  3. Jonathan L. Gross, Jay Yellen, Handbook of Graph Theory, CRC Press, 2004, Template:ISBN, p. 491.
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  7. Jessica Wolz, Engineering Linear Layouts with SAT. Master Thesis, University of Tübingen, 2018

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