page_title: Golomb graph
section_title: Construction
hierarchical_section_title: Golomb graph / Construction
context_page_description: In graph theory, the Golomb graph is a polyhedral graph with 10 vertices and 18 edges. It is named after Solomon W. Golomb, who constructed it as a unit distance graph that requires four colors in any graph coloring. Thus, like the simpler Moser spindle, it provides a lower bound for the Hadwiger–Nelson problem: coloring the points of the Euclidean plane so that each unit line segment has differently-colored endpoints requires at least four colors.
context_section_description: The method of construction of the Golomb graph as a unit distance graph, by drawing an outer regular polygon connected to an inner twisted polygon or star polygon, has also been used for unit distance representations of the Petersen graph and of generalized Petersen graphs. As with the Moser spindle, the coordinates of the unit-distance embedding of the Golomb graph can be represented in the quadratic field .
caption: 4-coloring of the Golomb graph, drawn as a unit distance graph