The folded -cube graph, perhaps better termed "folded hypercube graph," is a graph obtained by merging vertices of the -hypercube graph that are antipodal, i.e., lie at a distance (the graph diameter of ). Brouwer et al. 1989 (p. 222) use the notation for the folded -cube graph.
For , the folded -cube graph is regular of degree . It has vertices, edges, and diameter . The chromatic number is 2 for even and 4 for odd (Godsil 2004). Godsil observes that the independence number of the folded -cube graph is given by
a result which follows from Cvetkovic's eigenvalue bound to establish an upper bound and a direct construction of the independent set by looking at vertices at an odd (resp., even) distance from a fixed vertex when n is odd (resp., even) (S. Wagon, pers. comm.).
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-cube graph, perhaps better termed "folded hypercube graph," is a graph obtained by merging vertices of the 
-hypercube graph 
that are antipodal, i.e., lie at a distance 
(the graph diameter of 
). Brouwer et al. 1989 (p. 222) use the notation 
for the folded 
-cube graph. 
, the folded 
-cube graph is regular of degree 
. It has 
vertices, 
edges, and diameter 
. The chromatic number is 2 for 
even and 4 for 
odd (Godsil 2004). Godsil observes that the independence number of the folded 
-cube graph 
is given by 
-folded cube graph contains the Möbius ladder 
as a subgraph for 
and so is not unit-distance. 
-cube graph
-cube graph is the hypercube graph 
. 