| Abstract: | Let G be an undirected graph without multiple edges and with a loop at every vertex—the set of edges of G corresponds to a reflexive and symmetric binary relation on its set of vertices. Then every edge-preserving map of the set of vertices of G to itself fixes an edge {f(a), f(b)} = {a, b} for some edge (a, b) of G] if and only if (i) G is connected, (ii) G contains no cycles, and (iii) G contains no infinte paths. The proof is conerned with those subgraphs H of a graph G for which there is an edge-preserving map f of the set of vertices of G onto the set of vertices of H and satisfying f(a) = a for each vertex a of H. |
