In contrast with ordinary undirected graphs for which there is a single natural notion of [[cycle (graph theory)|cycles]] and [[Forest (graph theory)|acyclic graphs]], there are multiple natural non-equivalent definitions of acyclicity for hypergraphs which collapse to ordinary graph acyclicity for the special case of ordinary graphs. | In contrast with ordinary undirected graphs for which there is a single natural notion of [[cycle (graph theory)|cycles]] and [[Forest (graph theory)|acyclic graphs]], there are multiple natural non-equivalent definitions of acyclicity for hypergraphs which collapse to ordinary graph acyclicity for the special case of ordinary graphs. |