The article proposes the implicit exhaustive search procedure based on the triangle decomposition of graphs for determining the maximal clique in the arbitrary undirected graph G in polynomial time; it has allowed developing an exact algorithm for solving the problem with time complexity not exceeding ) ( 7 n O , where n is the number of vertices in the graph G.Index Terms-Мaximal independent set, click, vertex cover, decomposition of a graph into triangles 2 An Approach to Determination of Maximal Cliques in Undirected Graphs
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