Antiprism graph

In the mathematical field of graph theory, an antiprism graph is a graph that has one of the antiprisms as its skeleton. An $n$-sided antiprism has $2n$ vertices and $4n$ edges. They are regular, polyhedral (and therefore by necessity also 3-vertex-connected, vertex-transitive, and planar graphs), and also Hamiltonian graphs.

Examples
The first graph in the sequence, the octahedral graph, has 6 vertices and 12 edges. Later graphs in the sequence may be named after the type of antiprism they correspond to:


 * Octahedral graph – 6 vertices, 12 edges
 * square antiprismatic graph – 8 vertices, 16 edges
 * Pentagonal antiprismatic graph – 10 vertices, 20 edges
 * Hexagonal antiprismatic graph – 12 vertices, 24 edges
 * Heptagonal antiprismatic graph – 14 vertices, 28 edges
 * Octagonal antiprismatic graph – 16 vertices, 32 edges

Although geometrically the star polygons also form the faces of a different sequence of (self-intersecting) antiprisms, the star antiprisms, they do not form a different sequence of graphs.

Related graphs
An antiprism graph is a special case of a circulant graph, Ci2n(2,1).

Other infinite sequences of polyhedral graph formed in a similar way from polyhedra with regular-polygon bases include the prism graphs (graphs of prisms) and wheel graphs (graphs of pyramids). Other vertex-transitive polyhedral graphs include the Archimedean graphs.