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24 Generation of cubic <strong>graph</strong>s<br />

Figure 2.7: A non-adjacent edge diamond insertion which yields a new reducible lollipop<br />

with central vertex c.<br />

The non-adjacent edge diamond insertion operation is applied to pairs of nonadjacent<br />

edges. Suppose that we have a prime <strong>graph</strong> G, then the following cases<br />

can occur:<br />

• G contains at least 3 reducible lollipops.<br />

The non-adjacent edge diamond insertion operation can destroy at most 2<br />

reducible lollipops. So the list of non-adjacent edges which are eligible for<br />

expansion is empty.<br />

• G contains contains 2 reducible lollipops.<br />

The lollipops can only be destroyed if both endpoints of the first edge in<br />

the pair of edges to which the expansion is applied are in the K 4<br />

+ of the<br />

first reducible lollipop <strong>and</strong> the endpoints of the second edge of the edge pair<br />

are in the K 4<br />

+ of the second reducible lollipop. However applying the nonadjacent<br />

edge diamond operation to such a pair of edges yields a non-prime<br />

<strong>graph</strong>. So also in this case the list of non-adjacent edges which are eligible<br />

for expansion is empty.

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