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Bicomponents[g]

gives the biconnected components of the undirected graph g.

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Bicomponents

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Bicomponents[g]

gives the biconnected components of the undirected graph g.

Details and Options

  • Bicomponents functionality is now available in the built-in Wolfram Language function KVertexConnectedComponents.
  • To use Bicomponents, you first need to load the Graph Utilities Package using Needs["GraphUtilities`"].
  • A biconnected component is a maximal subgraph that has no cutpoint, where a cutpoint is a vertex v such that the subgraph becomes disconnected if v and all its edges are removed.
  • Bicomponents treats the input g as an undirected graph.

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Basic Examples  (2)

This shows that a simple line with two vertices is biconnected:

Bicomponents has been superseded by KVertexConnectedComponents:

Scope  (1)

This defines a small graph:

The graph has four bicomponents, one for each cycle and two for the line joining the cycles:

Properties & Relations  (2)

This shows that a simple line with two vertices is biconnected:

This defines a graph:

This shows its biconnected components and connected components:

The result from WeakComponents is always smaller than that of Bicomponents:

Wolfram Research (2007), Bicomponents, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/GraphUtilities/ref/Bicomponents.html.

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Wolfram Research (2007), Bicomponents, Wolfram Language function, https://reference.wolfram.com/language/GraphUtilities/ref/Bicomponents.html.

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Wolfram Language. 2007. "Bicomponents." Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Wolfram Research. https://reference.wolfram.com/language/GraphUtilities/ref/Bicomponents.html.

APA

Wolfram Language. (2007). Bicomponents. Wolfram Language & System Documentation Center. Retrieved from https://reference.wolfram.com/language/GraphUtilities/ref/Bicomponents.html

BibTeX

@misc{reference.wolfram_2025_bicomponents, author="Wolfram Research", title="{Bicomponents}", year="2007", howpublished="\url{https://reference.wolfram.com/language/GraphUtilities/ref/Bicomponents.html}", note=[Accessed: 16-August-2025]}

BibLaTeX

@online{reference.wolfram_2025_bicomponents, organization={Wolfram Research}, title={Bicomponents}, year={2007}, url={https://reference.wolfram.com/language/GraphUtilities/ref/Bicomponents.html}, note=[Accessed: 16-August-2025]}