Walks

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Chapter 2 Walks

In this chapter we investigate walks in graphs. We first look at some basic definitions and examples, we discuss Dijkstra's algorithm for finding the shortest path between two points in a weighted graph, and we discuss the notions of Eulerian and Hamiltonian graphs.