%0 Journal Article %T On the Number of Cycles in a Graph %A Nazanin Movarraei %A Samina A. Boxwala %J Open Journal of Discrete Mathematics %P 41-69 %@ 2161-7643 %D 2016 %I Scientific Research Publishing %R 10.4236/ojdm.2016.62005 %X In this paper, we obtain explicit formulae for the number of 7-cycles and the total number of cycles of lengths 6 and 7 which contain a specific vertex vi in a simple graph G, in terms of the adjacency matrix and with the help of combinatorics. %K Adjacency Matrix %K Cycle %K Graph Theory %K Path %K Subgraph %K Walk %U http://www.scirp.org/journal/PaperInformation.aspx?PaperID=65254