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## Canonical permutation of a graph

### Description

The canonical permutation brings every isomorphic graphs into the same (labeled) graph.

### Usage

canonical_permutation(graph, sh = "fm")


### Arguments

 graph The input graph, treated as undirected. sh Type of the heuristics to use for the BLISS algorithm. See details for possible values.

### Details

canonical_permutation computes a permutation which brings the graph into canonical form, as defined by the BLISS algorithm. All isomorphic graphs have the same canonical form.

See the paper below for the details about BLISS. This and more information is available at http://www.tcs.hut.fi/Software/bliss/index.html.

The possible values for the sh argument are:

"f"

First non-singleton cell.

"fl"

First largest non-singleton cell.

"fs"

First smallest non-singleton cell.

"fm"

First maximally non-trivially connectec non-singleton cell.

"flm"

Largest maximally non-trivially connected non-singleton cell.

"fsm"

Smallest maximally non-trivially connected non-singleton cell.

See the paper in references for details about these.

### Value

A list with the following members:

 labeling The canonical parmutation which takes the input graph into canonical form. A numeric vector, the first element is the new label of vertex 0, the second element for vertex 1, etc. info Some information about the BLISS computation. A named list with the following members: "nof_nodes"The number of nodes in the search tree. "nof_leaf_nodes"The number of leaf nodes in the search tree. "nof_bad_nodes"Number of bad nodes. "nof_canupdates"Number of canrep updates. "max_level"Maximum level. "group_size"The size of the automorphism group of the input graph, as a string. This number is exact if igraph was compiled with the GMP library, and approximate otherwise.

### Author(s)

Tommi Junttila for BLISS, Gabor Csardi csardi.gabor@gmail.com for the igraph and R interfaces.

### References

Tommi Junttila and Petteri Kaski: Engineering an Efficient Canonical Labeling Tool for Large and Sparse Graphs, Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on Algorithm Engineering and Experiments and the Fourth Workshop on Analytic Algorithms and Combinatorics. 2007.

permute to apply a permutation to a graph, graph.isomorphic for deciding graph isomorphism, possibly based on canonical labels.

### Examples


## Calculate the canonical form of a random graph
g1 <- sample_gnm(10, 20)
cp1 <- canonical_permutation(g1)
cf1 <- permute(g1, cp1$labeling) ## Do the same with a random permutation of it g2 <- permute(g1, sample(vcount(g1))) cp2 <- canonical_permutation(g2) cf2 <- permute(g2, cp2$labeling)

## Check that they are the same
el1 <- as_edgelist(cf1)
el2 <- as_edgelist(cf2)
el1 <- el1[ order(el1[,1], el1[,2]), ]
el2 <- el2[ order(el2[,1], el2[,2]), ]
all(el1 == el2)


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