Graph Theory Isomorphism

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Are there any graphs that are isomorphic to its complement? I'm not sure if I can consider just a vertex A with no edges to be the graph and its complement A' to also have no edges which would make them isomorphic to each other.

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Try the path graph $P_4$ (edges of complement shown below in red)

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There are in fact many graphs which are isomorphic to their complement. For example, there are more than 9 billion such graphs of order 20. See http://oeis.org/A000171 for more enumerative results.

In fact, there are infinitely many self-complementary graphs, as is explained well in an answer to this previous M.SE question.