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If all principal diagonal elements of an adjacency matrix are zero’s, then the corresponding graph has

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If all principal diagonal elements of an adjacency matrix are zero’s, then the corresponding graph has

  • No loops
  • Only edges connecting distinct vertices
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Solution

If all principal diagonal elements of an adjacency matrix are zeros, then the corresponding graph is a simple graph that does not have self-loops.

In graph theory, an adjacency matrix is used to represent a graph. The elements of the matrix indicate whether pairs of vertices are adjacent or not in the graph. Specifically, the entry aij a_{ij} in the adjacency matrix is 1 if there is an edge connecting vertex i i and vertex j j , and 0 if there is no edge.

When all diagonal entries aii a_{ii} are zero, it means there are no edges connecting any vertex to itself, which confirms the absence of self-loops. Therefore, the graph corresponds to a simple graph, which is characterized by:

  1. No self-loops: No vertex is connected to itself.
  2. No multiple edges: There is at most one edge between any two vertices.

Thus, the final answer is that the corresponding graph is a simple graph without self-loops.

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