The treewidth of a graph. A graph has treewidth zero if and only if it has no edges. A connected graph has treewidth at most one if and only if it is a tree. A connected graph has treewidth at most two if and only if it is a series-parallel graph.

The pathwidth of a graph.

The Colin de Verdière graph invariant.

The degeneracy of a graph. The degeneracy of a graph $G$ is the maximum of the minimum degrees of the (vertex induced) subgraphs of $G$.

The largest degree of a regular subgraph of a graph. For $k > 2$, it is an NP-complete problem to determine whether a graph has a $k$-regular subgraph, see [1].

The proper pathwidth of a graph. The proper pathwidth $\operatorname{ppw}(G)$ was introduced in [1] as the minimum width of a proper-path-decomposition. Barioli et al. [2] showed that if $G$ has at least one edge, then $\operatorname{ppw}(G)$ is the minimum $k$ for which $G$ is a minor of the Cartesian product $K_k \square P$ of a complete graph on $k$ vertices with a path; and further that $\operatorname{ppw}(G)$ is the minor monotone floor $\lfloor \operatorname{Z} \rfloor(G) := \min\{\operatorname{Z}(H) \mid G \preceq H\}$ of the [[St000482|zero forcing number]] $\operatorname{Z}(G)$. It can be shown [3, Corollary 9.130] that only the spanning supergraphs need to be considered for $H$ in this definition, i.e. $\lfloor \operatorname{Z} \rfloor(G) = \min\{\operatorname{Z}(H) \mid G \le H,\; V(H) = V(G)\}$. The minimum degree $\delta$, treewidth $\operatorname{tw}$, and pathwidth $\operatorname{pw}$ satisfy $$\delta \le \operatorname{tw} \le \operatorname{pw} \le \operatorname{ppw} = \lfloor \operatorname{Z} \rfloor \le \operatorname{pw} + 1.$$ Note that [4] uses a different notion of proper pathwidth, which is equal to bandwidth.

The order of the largest clique of the graph. A clique in a graph $G$ is a subset $U \subseteq V(G)$ such that any pair of vertices in $U$ are adjacent. I.e. the subgraph induced by $U$ is a complete graph.

The chromatic number of a graph. The minimal number of colors needed to color the vertices of the graph such that no two vertices which share an edge have the same color.