# Detecting all cycles in un-directed graph [duplicate]

I would like to detect all the cycles(non duplicate) in a given graph, I mean if A-B-C-A is a cycle, then A-C-B-A is a duplicate of previous one and need to be considered.I could use DFS and detect a cycle, but what if i want to continue to find other cycles? how would i make any node to be considered for other cycle?

• There can be exponentially many cycles in a graph, so you could just try every sequence of distinct vertices (up to cyclic permutations) and check whether it's a cycle. Feb 2 '16 at 10:19
• @Shaull That would have bad time complexity in terms of output size. Feb 2 '16 at 10:40
• @YuvalFilmus - for a $k$-clique this would be optimal (although there are of course examples on which it would be terrible). Feb 2 '16 at 10:52
• – D.W.
Feb 4 '16 at 7:59

Given graph $G$, find the DFS tree $T$ of $G$. We know from the structural property of $T$ that any for edge $(u,v)$ in $G$, we have that either $u$ is an ancestor of $v$ in $T$ or $v$ is an ancestor of $u$ in $T$. Therefore, brute force search for cycles in $G$ only along subsets of the branches in $T$. This is equal to the trivial brute force search if $G$ is a clique but better otherwise.