Math 2.0

Concept

Hereditary

Summary

A hereditary property of graphs is a property that is closed under induced subgraphs: if GG has a hereditary property, then so must every induced subgraph of GG. Compare monotone (closed under all subgraphs) or minor-closed (closed under minors).

Further reading

  1. Wikipedia, page 325802, revision 1373839425, Glossary of graph theory, section H. adopted
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