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On self-clique shoal graphs. (English) Zbl 1333.05226
Summary: The clique graph of a graph $$G$$ is the intersection graph $$K(G)$$ of its (maximal) cliques, and $$G$$ is self-clique if $$K(G)$$ is isomorphic to $$G$$. A graph $$G$$ is locally $$H$$ if the neighborhood of each vertex is isomorphic to $$H$$. Assuming that each clique of the regular and self-clique graph $$G$$ is a triangle, it is known that $$G$$ can only be $$r$$-regular for $$r \in \{4, 5, 6 \}$$ and $$G$$ must be, depending on $$r$$, a locally $$H$$ graph for some $$H \in \{P_4, P_2 \cup P_3, 3 P_2 \}$$. The self-clique locally $$P_4$$ graphs are easy to classify, but only a family of locally $$H$$ self-clique graphs was known for $$H = P_2 \cup P_3$$, and another one for $$H = 3 P_2$$.
We study locally $$P_2 \cup P_3$$ graphs (i.e. shoal graphs). We show that all previously known shoal graphs were self-clique. We give a bijection from (finite) shoal graphs to 2-regular digraphs without directed 3-cycles. Under this translation, self-clique graphs correspond to self-dual digraphs, which simplifies constructions, calculations and proofs. We compute the numbers, for each $$n \leq 28$$, of self-clique and non-self-clique shoal graphs of order $$n$$, and also prove that these numbers grow at least exponentially with $$n$$.

##### MSC:
 05C69 Vertex subsets with special properties (dominating sets, independent sets, cliques, etc.)
##### Keywords:
clique graphs; self-clique graphs; constant link
##### Software:
GAP; GENREG; nauty; OEIS
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