The filterGraphs and countGraphs methods both can use a tremendous number of constraints which are described by a rather tersely encoded string. This method builds that string given information in the HashTable $h$ or the List $l$. Any keys which do not exist are simply ignored and any values which are not valid (e.g., exactly $-3$ vertices) are also ignored.
The values can either be Boolean or in ZZ. Boolean values are treated exactly as expected. Numerical values are more complicated; we use an example to illustrate how numerical values can be used, but note that this usage works for all numerically valued keys.
The key NumEdges restricts to a specific number of edges in the graph. If the value is the integer $n$, then only graphs with exactly $n$ edges are returned.
i1 : L = {graph {{1,2}}, graph {{1,2},{2,3}}, graph {{1,2},{2,3},{3,4}}, graph {{1,2},{2,3},{3,4},{4,5}}}; |
i2 : s = buildGraphFilter {"NumEdges" => 3}; |
i3 : filterGraphs(L, s) o3 = {Graph{1 => {2} }} 2 => {1, 3} 3 => {2, 4} 4 => {3} o3 : List |
If the value is the Sequence $(m,n)$, then all graphs with at least $m$ and at most $n$ edges are returned.
i4 : s = buildGraphFilter {"NumEdges" => (2,3)}; |
i5 : filterGraphs(L, s) o5 = {Graph{1 => {2} }, Graph{1 => {2} }} 2 => {1, 3} 2 => {1, 3} 3 => {2} 3 => {2, 4} 4 => {3} o5 : List |
If the value is the Sequence $(,n)$, then all graphs with at most $n$ edges are returned.
i6 : s = buildGraphFilter {"NumEdges" => (,3)}; |
i7 : filterGraphs(L, s) o7 = {Graph{1 => {2}}, Graph{1 => {2} }, Graph{1 => {2} }} 2 => {1} 2 => {1, 3} 2 => {1, 3} 3 => {2} 3 => {2, 4} 4 => {3} o7 : List |
If the value is the Sequence $(m,)$, then all graphs with at least $m$ edges are returned.
i8 : s = buildGraphFilter {"NumEdges" => (2,)}; |
i9 : filterGraphs(L, s) o9 = {Graph{1 => {2} }, Graph{1 => {2} }, Graph{1 => {2} }} 2 => {1, 3} 2 => {1, 3} 2 => {1, 3} 3 => {2} 3 => {2, 4} 3 => {2, 4} 4 => {3} 4 => {3, 5} 5 => {4} o9 : List |
Moreover, the associated key NegateNumEdges, if true, causes the opposite to occur.
i10 : s = buildGraphFilter {"NumEdges" => (2,), "NegateNumEdges" => true}; |
i11 : filterGraphs(L, s) o11 = {Graph{1 => {2}}} 2 => {1} o11 : List |
The following are the boolean options: "Regular", "Bipartite", "Eulerian", "VertexTransitive".
The following are the numerical options (recall all have the associate "Negate" option): "NumVertices", "NumEdges", "MinDegree", "MaxDegree", "Radius", "Diameter", "Girth", "NumCycles", "NumTriangles", "GroupSize", "Orbits", "FixedPoints", "Connectivity", "MinCommonNbrsAdj", "MaxCommonNbrsAdj", "MinCommonNbrsNonAdj", "MaxCommonNbrsNonAdj".
Connectivity only works for the values $0, 1, 2$ and uses the following definition of $k$-connectivity. A graph is $k$-connected if $k$ is the minimum size of a set of vertices whose complement is not connected.
Thus, in order to filter for connected graphs, one must use {"Connectivity" => 0, "NegateConnectivity" => true}.
NumCycles can only be used with graphs on at most $n$ vertices, where $n$ is the number of bits for which nauty was compiled, typically $32$ or $64$.
The object buildGraphFilter is a method function.